Psionics vs Telepathy - What's the difference?
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(science fiction) Mental powers that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis.
* 1976 , Reginald Bretnor, The Craft of Science Fiction
* 1998 , Gary Westfahl, The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction
(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.
As nouns the difference between psionics and telepathy
is that psionics is mental powers that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis while telepathy is 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.psionics
English
(wikipedia psionics)Noun
(-)- In any case, psionics appears quite legitimately in science fiction.
- In the 1960s, Campbell abandoned his public obsessions with psionics and pseudo-science.