telekinesis
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌtɛləkɪˈniːsɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]telekinesis (countable and uncountable, plural telekineses)
- (uncountable) The ability to move objects with the power of one's mind.
- 1899, Thomson Jay Hudson, The Divine Pedigree of Man, page 154:
- Telekinetic energy, which has been variously designated as psychic force (Sir William Crookes), ectenic force (Professor Thury), and telekinesis (Professor Cowes), is demonstrably a power or faculty of the subjective mind.
- 1920, Hereward Carrington, The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, page 367:
- And this brings me to a consideration of how the phenomena of telekinesis may conceivably be produced — granting that the phenomena are ever genuine at all.
- 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61:
- He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.
- 1988, Robert Salvatore, The Crystal Shard, page 39:
- 'Venison' he declared, mentally lifting the animal through the air toward him without a second thought to the act, though telekinesis was a spell that hadn't been in the considerable repertoire of Morkai the Red.
- 2000, Fred M. Frohock, Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism, page 29:
- She regards telekinesis as impossible and claims for it as generally fraudulent. For two years she worked in a university laboratory testing telekinesis,
- 2002, Rita Berkowtiz with Deborah S. Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits, page 187:
- Perhaps the most famous demonstrations of telekinesis came in the 1970s when a young psychic from Russia named Uri Geller came to prominence for his ability to bend spoons and other metal objects without any physical contact.
- 2006, Richard Cadena, Automated Lighting, page 434:
- And if voice-activated control isn't enough, we could someday use telekinesis to control lights with our thoughts.
- An instance of use of such power.
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[edit]ability to move objects with the power of one's thoughts
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