ESP
Mind-reading ability, abbreviated
ESP stands for extrasensory perception—the supposed ability to acquire information without using the known senses.
This includes telepathy (reading minds), clairvoyance (seeing distant events), and precognition (knowing the future).
Though scientifically unverified, ESP remains popular in fiction and paranormal discussion: She claimed to have ESP and knew what I was thinking.
Deviating from expected norms
- phenomenaObservable facts or events
- psi23rd Greek letter
- RhineMajor Central European waterway
- experimentsTests of a hypothesis
research · telepathic · clairvoyant · precognitive · meta-analysis · Duke · statistical · parapsychologist
Paranormal future awareness
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- seerOne who envisions futures
oracle · visions · foretelling · prognostication · psychometry · divination · augury · sibyl
Perceiving others' thoughts directly
- telepathicAble to read minds
- brainwaveSudden clever idea
- empathicFeeling what others feel
- mentalistSupposed thought reader
psi · Rhine · sender · receiver · rapport · attunement · mind-meld
Mental object manipulation
- levitationUnsupported aerial suspension
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
- PKDefeating human opponent
- manifestationOutward display of something
Middle size or state
- seanceRitual to contact spirits
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- ectoplasmSupposed supernatural exudate
trance · Ouija · spiritualist · ghost · contact · afterlife · possession · haunting
anomalous
Deviating from expected norms
experiments · research · telepathic · clairvoyant · precognitive · meta-analysis · Duke · statistical · parapsychologist · laboratory
precognition
Paranormal future awareness
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- prophecyForetelling of future events
seer · oracle · visions · foretelling · prognostication · psychometry · divination · augury · sibyl · prescience
mindreading
Perceiving others' thoughts directly
- telepathicAble to read minds
- brainwaveSudden clever idea
- empathicFeeling what others feel
mentalist · psi · Rhine · sender · receiver · rapport · attunement · mind-meld
telekinesis
Mental object manipulation
- levitationUnsupported aerial suspension
- poltergeistDisruptive supernatural entity
- PKDefeating human opponent
medium
Middle size or state
- seanceRitual to contact spirits
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
ectoplasm · trance · Ouija · spiritualist · ghost · contact · afterlife · possession · haunting · manifestation
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- psychic abilitiesclairvoyance, precognition, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy
- Psychic Powerstelepathy, mind reading, clairvoyance, psychic, precognition
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- Fringe Sciencecold fusion, perpetual motion, alchemy, astrology, phrenology
- parapsychologyghosts, psi, mediums, telepathy, seances
Detecting stimuli through senses
sight · hearing · touch · empirical observation · direct observation
Proof from measurable observation
scientific observation · empiricism · skepticism · science · materialism
extrasensory, perception, perceive, perceivable, perceived, perceiving, perceptive, perceptible, perceptual