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telepathic

telepathic

60 8.4
Able to send thoughts to another person's mind without speaking or using the senses
  • adjective
  • /ˌtɛləˈpæθɪk/
translation icon : telepático
  • The two friends seemed to have a telepathic connection, finishing each other's sentences.
  • telepathic ability
  • telepathic communication
  • telepathic channel

Our companions, like I say, we're appalled, but Terry and I were in telepathic communication.

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Examples

  • The children of these women developed telepathic abilities, but also suffered terrible side effects.

  • A master vampire has a telepathic link with his victims.

  • It's telepathic between the two of them.

  • See, people who fall in love outside... of a normal relationship, they have these powers... telepathic powers.

  • The telepathic communication is very clear and we are working, literally working together on the book directly.

  • When I finally master my telepathic abilities, I'll let you know.

  • Then he spotted her, as if a telepathic link already existed between them.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • A lot of people believe that they're telepathic.

  • Our companions, like I say, we're appalled, but Terry and I were in telepathic communication.

  • Lerigot is receiving a telepathic transmission that is obviously upsetting him greatly.

How Telepathic

telepathic
60 8.4
mind reader
16 6.3
psychic
208 7.3

Surface Forms

telepathic positive

Morphology

telepathic = telepathy (transparent) = telepathy + ic

A standard adjectival formation from the noun 'telepathy' using the productive suffix '-ic', so the meaning is directly predictable from the base noun.

Etymology

Telepathic comes from tele- meaning 'far', as in telephone, and pathos meaning 'feeling', as in empathy. So, to be telepathic is like 'feeling' or knowing someone else's thoughts from far away, a kind of 'telephone' for minds.