mindreads

Perceives inner monologue

Mindreads is the third-person singular of mindread, meaning to discern someone's thoughts without them speaking.

The word usually appears in informal or playful contexts: She basically mindreads—I don't even have to tell her what I want.

It can suggest uncanny perceptiveness or, sarcastically, an impossible expectation: Sorry, nobody here mindreads.

telepathy

thoughts

Mental reflections

ESP · clairvoyance · sixth sense · brainwaves · unspoken · divination · mentalist · empathy · insight · premonition

fictional

Professor X

Jean Grey · superpower · telepaths · sci-fi · fantasy · comic books · psionic · Eleven · Xavier · Spock

social

anticipation

State of awaiting something

understanding · body language · microexpressions · inference · deduction · cold reading · hot reading · tells · nonverbal · subtext

Opposites
method of knowing others' thoughts

mindreadsguesses

Estimates without certainty

infers · deduces · observes · speculates · assumes

communication directness

mindreadsasks

Seeks information verbally

inquires · questions · communicates · discusses · converses

certainty of knowledge about others' thoughts

mindreadsspeculates

Guesses based on incomplete information

conjectures · hypothesizes · assumes · presumes · wonders

Family

mindreading, mindread, mindreader

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G