Clairvoyant vs Telepath - What's the difference?
clairvoyant | telepath | Related terms |
Of or relating to clairvoyance.
Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
Able to foresee the future.
A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
A person able to foresee the future.
(parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.
(parapsychology, science fiction) To communicate by thought; to use telepathy.
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1896
, date = October
, magazine = Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
, title = A Diary of Telepathic Impressions
, url = http://archive.org/details/journalofsociety07sociuoft
, volume = 7
, issue = 132
, page = 300
, passage = Jan. 3rd, 1984.—I was in the front sitting-room and dare not go out of the room for the cold; my plants were awfully dry, and hearing E. [her niece] in the kitchen, I telepathed to her to bring me in some water. She at once came with a jug full and asked if I would water the plants.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1947
, date = June
, first = Raymond A.
, last = Palmer
, authorlink = Raymond A. Palmer
, magazine =
, title = Observatory
, url =
, volume = 21
, issue = 6
, page = 9
, passage = He does not attribute one single experience to what we might term a "ghost" for lack of a better term. Witches, poltergeists, goblins, gremlins, fairies, dwarfs—all of them are real, physical, alive, being either the real thing or the teleported or telepathed image of the real thing.
}}
* 1973 February, , Iron Man , number 55:
Clairvoyant is a related term of telepath.
As nouns the difference between clairvoyant and telepath
is that clairvoyant is a person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses while telepath is (parapsychology|science fiction) a person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.As an adjective clairvoyant
is of or relating to clairvoyance.As a verb telepath is
(parapsychology|science fiction) to communicate by thought; to use telepathy.clairvoyant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses) medium, mystic, seer * (person able to forsee the future) fortune tellerAnagrams
*telepath
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing ?"
