telepath

From telepathy.

telepath (plural telepaths)

1. (parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability, capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.

• teep, mind-reader (typ. negative or ironic)

telepath (third-person singular simple present telepaths, present participle telepathing, simple past and past participle telepathed)

1. (parapsychology, science fiction) To communicate by thought; to use telepathy.
   • 1896 October, “A Diary of Telepathic Impressions”, in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research‎, volume 7, number 132, page 300:

     Jan. 3rd, 1984.—I was in the front sitting-room and dare not go out of the room for the cold; my plants were awfully dry, and hearing E. [her niece] in the kitchen, I telepathed to her to bring me in some water. She at once came with a jug full and asked if I would water the plants.

   • 1947 June, Palmer, Raymond A., “Observatory”, in Amazing Stories, volume 21, number 6, page 9:

     He does not attribute one single experience to what we might term a "ghost" for lack of a better term. Witches, poltergeists, goblins, gremlins, fairies, dwarfs—all of them are real, physical, alive, being either the real thing or the teleported or telepathed image of the real thing.

   • 1973 February, Stan Lee, Iron Man, number 55:

     Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing?"

   • 1976, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”, in 3:47 EST, performed by Klaatu:

     In your mind you have capacities you know / To telepath messages through the vast unknown

• teep

• empath
• technopath
• cyberpath

• alphette