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Psychic vs Telepath - What's the difference?

psychic | telepath | Synonyms |

Psychic is a synonym of telepath.


As nouns the difference between psychic and telepath

is that psychic is a person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence while telepath is (parapsychology|science fiction) a person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.

As an adjective psychic

is relating to the abilities of a psychic.

As a verb telepath is

(parapsychology|science fiction) to communicate by thought; to use telepathy.

psychic

English

(wikipedia psychic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influence.
  • A person who supposedly contacts the dead. A medium.
  • (gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

    • References

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to the abilities of a psychic.
    • You must be psychic - I was just about to say that.
    She is a psychic person - she hears messages from beyond.
  • Relating to the psyche.
  • * 1967 , , The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
    • A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms

    Related terms

    * psychical * psychological

    telepath

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (parapsychology, science fiction) A person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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:
    • Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing ?"

    See also

    * empath * technopath * cyberpath