Telepath vs Diviner - What's the difference?
telepath | diviner | Related terms |
(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.
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* 1973 February, , Iron Man , number 55:
One who foretells the future.
One who searches for underground objects or water using a divining rod.
Telepath is a related term of diviner.
As nouns the difference between telepath and diviner
is that telepath is (parapsychology|science fiction) a person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them while diviner is one who foretells the future.As a verb telepath
is (parapsychology|science fiction) to communicate by thought; to use telepathy.telepath
English
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Thanos: "Did you not suspect I could tell you had been telepathing ?"