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Antipathy vs Telepathy - What's the difference?

antipathy | telepathy |

As nouns the difference between antipathy and telepathy

is that antipathy is contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste while telepathy is (parapsychology) the capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

antipathy

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(antipathies)
  • Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
  • * Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. --Washington.
  • Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
  • * A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. --I. Taylor.
  • Usage notes

    * Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

    Synonyms

    * hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

    Antonyms

    * sympathy

    telepathy

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (parapsychology) The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
  • Derived terms

    * telepathic * telepathically * telepathize

    See also

    * clairvoyance * precognition * telergy * teloteropathy