telepathy

English

Etymology

From tele- +‎ -pathy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛˈlɛpəθi/, /təˈlɛpəθi/, /ˈtɛləpæθi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

telepathy (usually uncountable, plural telepathies)

1. (parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
   • 2013, Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change‎^[1], New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 239:

     Gerwin Schalk and Anthony Ritaccio, at the Albany Medical Center, are working under a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. military to design and develop devices that enable soldiers to communicate telepathically. Although this seems like something out of a science fiction story, the Pentagon believes that these so-called telepathy helmets are sufficiently feasible that it is devoting more than $6 million to the project. The target date for completion of the prototype device is 2017.

Derived terms

• pseudo-telepathy
• telepathic
• telepathically
• telepathize

 

Translations

communication by psychic means

• Albanian: telepatia
• Arabic: تَخَاطُر m (taḵāṭur)
• Armenian: հեռազգացություն (hy) (heṙazgacʻutʻyun), տելեպաթիա (hy) (telepatʻia)
• Asturian: telepatía f
• Azerbaijani: telepatiya
• Belarusian: тэлепа́тыя f (teljepátyja)
• Bulgarian: телепа́тия (bg) f (telepátija)
• Burmese: တယ်လီပသီ (tailipa.si)
• Catalan: telepatia
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心靈感應／心灵感应 (zh) (xīnlínggǎnyìng)

• Czech: telepatie (cs) f
• Dutch: telepathie (nl) f
• Esperanto: telepatio
• Estonian: telepaatia
• Finnish: telepatia (fi), ajatuksensiirto
• French: télépathie (fr) f
• Galician: telepatía f
• Georgian: ტელეპათია (ṭeleṗatia)
• German: Telepathie (de) f, Gedankenlesen (de) n, Gedankenübertragung (de) f
• Greek: τηλεπάθεια (el) f (tilepátheia)
• Hebrew: טלפתיה (he)
• Hindi: परचित्‍तज्ञान (parcit‍tajñān), मनःपर्यय (manaḥparyay), दूरबोध (dūrbodh), दूर-संवेदना (dūr-samvednā)
• Hungarian: telepátia (hu), gondolatátvitel (hu), gondolatolvasás (hu)
• Indonesian: telepati (id)
• Italian: telepatia (it) f
• Japanese: テレパシー (ja) (terepashī)
• Khmer: ទូរចិត្ត (too rak chit), ទូរារម្មណ៍ (too ra rom)
• Korean: 텔레파시 (tellepasi), 정신감응 (jeongsin'gameung)
• Latin: telepathia f
• Latvian: telepātija f
• Lithuanian: telepatija
• Macedonian: телепатија f (telepatija)
• Malayalam: പരഹൃദയജ്ഞാനം (parahr̥dayajñānaṁ)
• Manx: co-inçhynys m, çhellapattys m
• Norwegian: telepati, tankeoverføring, tankelesning
• Persian: دورآگاهی (fa) (durâgâhi)
• Polish: telepatia (pl) f
• Portuguese: telepatia (pt) f
• Quechua: karuñak'ariy
• Romanian: telepatie (ro) f
• Russian: телепа́тия (ru) f (telepátija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: телепатија f

  Roman: telepatija (sh) f

• Slovak: telepatia f
• Slovene: telepatija f
• Spanish: telepatía (es) f
• Swahili: telepathia
• Swedish: telepati (sv)
• Tamil: தொலைவிலுணர்தல் (tolaiviluṇartal)
• Thai: กระแสจิต (grà-săe jìt), การติดต่อกันทางจิต (gaan dtìt dtòr gan taang jìt), โทรจิต (th) (toh-rá-jìt)
• Turkish: telepati (tr)
• Ukrainian: телепа́тія f (telepátija)
• Vietnamese: thần giao cách cảm

See also

• empathy
• technopathy
• clairvoyance
• precognition
• telergy
• teloteropathy