parapsychological
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- adjective
- /ˌpɛrəˌsaɪkəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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parapsicológico
- Many scientists remain skeptical of parapsychological claims due to lack of empirical evidence.
- parapsychological research
Examples
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The study of telepathy and clairvoyance falls under parapsychological research.
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She attended a conference focused on parapsychological phenomena like psychokinesis.
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When people tell me about possible parapsychological claims, life after death, things like that, these are possible.
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Parapsychological and spiritual data agree.
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If parapsychological effects are real, it seems natural to assume that prayer is an effective way of influencing the environment.
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The parapsychological model of God is strictly empirical; it is not a theology or a mythology.
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Significant evidence from parapsychological research supports the notion that thoughts, dreams, and visions can be communicated to others at a distance or nonlocally.
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The question is why does every parapsychological phenomenon vanish when there's a qualified skeptic in the room?
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One of the strongest empirical findings of parapsychological research is that people are more likely to be receptive to the nonlocal universe if they attend to their internal states.
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Many synchronistic events can also be described by parapsychological terms such as telepathy, the communication from one mind to another, or precognition, in which a person has a dream or premonition of something that will happen in the future.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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About events or abilities that cannot be explained by science, like telepathy
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Not explained by nature or science and believed to come from other forces
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Science cannot explain things like ghosts or people moving objects with their mind
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About mental powers people say are supernatural, like telepathy and clairvoyance
How Paranormal
Surface Forms
Morphology
parapsychological = parapsychology (semi-transparent) = para + psych + ology + ical
The word is a regular adjective formation from the technical noun 'parapsychology', but the base noun is specialized and not transparent to many learners.
Etymology
Parapsychological starts with para- meaning 'beyond' and psycho- meaning 'mind', like in psychology and psychic. The -logical part means 'study', so the word means the 'study of things beyond the normal mind', which is why it is used for telepathy, ghosts, and similar unexplained experiences.