cryokinesis

Cold-controlling psychic power

Cryokinesis is the imagined psychic ability to generate and control ice or cold.

The term appears in fantasy fiction, video games, and superhero media, where characters freeze objects, create ice constructs, or lower temperatures at will: Her cryokinesis let her encase the villain in ice.

Modeled on telekinesis, with cryo- from Greek for "frost."

ice-manipulation

freeze

Become solid from cold

permafrost · snowflake · blizzard · hail · sleet · iceberg · avalanche · frozen · subzero · frostwork

effects

hypothermia

Dangerously low body temperature

chill · brittle · preservation

fiction

Elsa

Germanic girl's name

supervillain · mutant · fantasy · anime · video-game

psychic-power

pyrokinesis

Thought-generated combustion

supernatural · paranormal · extrasensory · psi · focus · mutant · gifted · manifestation

Opposites
elemental temperature control

cryokinesispyrokinesis

Thought-generated combustion

electrokinesis · hydrokinesis

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kinesis, kinetic, kinetics, kinesiology, kinesiologist, cryogenic, cryogenics, cryostat, cryotherapy

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