telekinesis
/ˌtɛləkɪˈniːsɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The ability to move objects, or otherwise interact with physical systems and other phenomena, through the power of one's mind.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis."
- "'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."
- "She regards telekinesis as impossible and claims for it as generally fraudulent. For two years she worked in a university laboratory testing telekinesis,"
- "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."