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thought transference

noun

  1. transference of thought by extrasensory means from the mind of one individual to another; telepathy.


thought transference

noun

  1. psychol another name for telepathy
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of thought transference1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

I believe in thought transference now, vibrations in the ether, that sort of junk.

But the possibility of such thought transference is generally admitted.

The phenomena of thought transference, of telepathy, of hypnotism, are lifting the veil upon modes of influence of which we have scarcely dreamed.

It was a case of pure thought transference—a transference of a mental conception, line for line.

If we were to regard sleep, after the common usage, as a simple state, dreams, visions, thought transference, and the appearance of a person while living at a distance, become a mass of irreconcilable details.

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