• Telekinesis

    Origin

    From - + kinesis + -.

    Full definition of telekinesis

    Noun

    telekinesis

    (countable and uncountable; plural telekinesiss)
    1. (uncountable) The ability to move objects with the power of one's mind.
      • 1899, Thomson Jay Hudson, The Divine Pedigree of Man, 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, 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.
      • 1988, Robert Salvatore, The Crystal Shard, '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, 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, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits‎, 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, And if voice-activated control isn't enough, we could someday use telekinesis to control lights with our thoughts.
    2. An instance of use of such power.
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