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Contact vs Telepathize - What's the difference?

contact | telepathize |

As verbs the difference between contact and telepathize

is that contact is to touch; to come into physical contact with while telepathize is (parapsychology) to establish contact with or to receive via telepathy.

As a noun contact

is the act of touching physically; being in close association.

contact

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • The establishment of communication (with).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  • Someone with whom one is in communication.
  • (label) A contact lens.
  • (label) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  • Contact juggling.
  • (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
    • (Raymond)

    Derived terms

    * body contact * contact hitter * contactable * eye contact * first contact * golden contact * point of contact / POC

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To touch; to come into physical contact with.
    • The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
  • To establish communication with something or someone
    • I am trying to contact my sister.

    telepathize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * telepathise

    Verb

  • (parapsychology) To establish contact with or to receive via telepathy.
  • * 1978 , Paul E. Meehl, "Precognitive Telepathy I: On The Possibility of Distinguishing it Experimentally from Psychokinesis," Noûs , vol. 12, no. 3, p. 249:
    • Suppose we assume that the percipient does precognitively telepathize the two-seconds-in-the-future psychological state of the agent's brain/mind.
  • (parapsychology) To engage in telepathic communication.
  • * 1962 , W. I. Matson, "Against Induction and Empiricism," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , vol. 62, p. 152:
    • It does not seem to make sense to speak of learning to telepathize .

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