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telepathically

telepathically

17 8.6
People understand each other without speaking or using signals
  • adverb
  • /ˌtɛləˈpæθɪkli/
translation icon : telepáticamente
  • In the story, the two main characters could communicate telepathically across great distances.
  • communicate telepathically
  • telepathically linked
  • thoughts telepathically

So she asks Anne, do fire lizards speak telepathically in words or just empathic images?

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Examples

  • My colleague, Dr. Spaulding, is developing a substance that will allow dolphins to communicate with humans telepathically.

  • This is all happening... telepathically.

  • Good thing that we can, like, communicate telepathically, or else we would have been here for a very long time.

  • How many times have we tried to telepathically communicate?

  • "So what, you two understand each other telepathically."

    Fiction book (1998)
  • And how did she control it, telepathically?

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Are you trying to communicate with me telepathically?

  • I sometimes feel as if she is throwing her voice straight to my brain, and we are talking telepathically.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • So when I learn something new, I can update her knowledge telepathically.

    Blog text (27)
  • I don't feel that I know what's going on with this person with whom I used to feel almost telepathically connected.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

psychically
vstelepathically
10 9.3

By using the mind to sense things people cannot see or hear

is specific to direct mind to mind communication without speech or physical signals

Surface Forms

telepathically positive

Morphology

telepathically = telepathic (transparent) = telepath + ic + ally

The adverb is formed regularly from the adjective 'telepathic' with the productive adverbial suffix '-ally', so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

The word telepathically comes from the parts tele- meaning 'far' and path meaning 'feeling', the same pieces you see in telephone and empathy. So to act telepathically is to 'feel' or understand someone at a distance, like sending thoughts without words.