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Definition of Telekinesis

1. Noun. The power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force.

Definition of Telekinesis

1. Noun. The ability to move an object with the power of one's thoughts. ¹

2. Noun. An instance of use of such power. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Telekinesis

1. [n -KINESES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telekinesis

Literary usage of Telekinesis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1910)
"A Case of telekinesis. Putnam's Magazine for March (1910) has an incident from the recollection of ..."

2. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"telekinesis. — Extended to Infinity, it would be Omnipotence.— New Testament Examples of Dynamic Force of the Soul.— Telepathy. — Its Significance. ..."

3. On the Cosmic Relations by Henry Holt (1914)
"CHAPTER IX MOLAR telekinesis (Continued) Dowsing UNDER Molar telekinesis I venture tentatively to include another strange mode of force that has long been ..."

4. Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by Joseph Maxwell, Charles Robert Richet (1905)
"telekinesis I will now relate my observations upon telekinesis, that is to say, movements without contact. telekinesis corresponds with ..."

5. Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by Joseph Maxwell, Charles Robert Richet (1905)
"telekinesis I will now relate my observations upon telekinesis, that is to say, movements without ... telekinesis corresponds with t'exteriorisation de la ..."

6. Can Telepathy Explain?: Results of Psychical Research by Minot Judson Savage (1902)
"... XIV telekinesis * telekinesis is the technical term which psychical researchers have agreed to use as covering cases of the movement of physical objects ..."

7. The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, Fraudulent and Genuine: Being a by Hereward Carrington (1907)
"... CHAPTER XX telekinesis THOUGH there are many ways in which objects may be moved by fraudulent means, it is very doubtful whether these methods would ..."

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