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Telepath vs Soothsayer - What's the difference?

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Telepath is a related term of soothsayer.


As nouns the difference between telepath and soothsayer

is that telepath is (parapsychology|science fiction) a person with telepathic ability; capable of reading the thoughts of others around them while soothsayer is (obsolete) one who tells the truth; a truthful person.

As a verb telepath

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

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

    soothsayer

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who tells the truth; a truthful person.
  • One who predicts the future, using magic, intuition or intelligence; a diviner.
  • A mantis or rearhorse.
  • See also

    * prognosticator * seer * prophet