mindreading
Knowing unspoken thoughts
Mindreading is the supposed ability to perceive another person's thoughts directly, without communication.
In everyday use, it often describes intuiting what someone is thinking or feeling: After twenty years of marriage, she could practically mindread.
The term also appears sarcastically when someone expects you to know something they haven't said: I'm not mindreading here—you have to tell me what you want.
Beyond ordinary perception
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- parapsychologyStudy of extrasensory phenomena
Able to read minds
Sharing another's emotions
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- perceptiveQuick to understand
- intuitiveKnown without reasoning
- discerningHaving keen judgment
body-language · microexpressions · nonverbal · understanding · rapport · mirroring · sensitivity
Force-wielding space monk
Secretly investigating others
- pryingIntrusively inquisitive
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- eavesdroppingSecretly listening to others
- unwelcomeNot wanted here
extrasensory
Beyond ordinary perception
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
telepathic
Able to read minds
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- perceptiveQuick to understand
- intuitiveKnown without reasoning
discerning · body-language · microexpressions · nonverbal · understanding · rapport · mirroring · sensitivity
Jedi
Force-wielding space monk
snooping
Secretly investigating others
- pryingIntrusively inquisitive
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- eavesdroppingSecretly listening to others
unwelcome · meddling · overreach · violation · dystopian · Orwellian
- mentalizingmental states, mentalization, perspective taking, false belief, folk psychology
mindreadingverbal communication
Exchange through spoken language
spoken language · direct speech · body language · nonverbal cues · written communication
mindreadingobliviousness
Lack of awareness
guesswork · interrogation · cluelessness · incomprehension · misreading
mindreadinginscrutability
Impossible to understand
impenetrability · poker face · concealment · privacy · closed book
read, mind, reading, reader, remind, mindful, reminder, mindless, mindset