TELEPATHIC Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

telepathic

adjective

Definition of telepathic

as in psychic

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Recent Examples of telepathic The genius villain is telepathic and has several powers, including superhuman strength, telekinesis, energy projection, shapeshifting and teleportation. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026 In Dylan Meyer’s stoner comedy The Wrong Girls, Kristen Stewart and Alia Shawkat play co-dependent pals made telepathic by an experimental new drug. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2026 Its steering is light, razor-precise, and near telepathic in its feedback. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2026 Straczynski wrote the part of the telepathic Lyta specifically for her, after seeing her in the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. — Jp Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Aug. 2026 Frost is a telepathic Mutant who first showed up in X-Men comics in the 1980s and has evolved over the years, going from supervillain to a key member of the X-Men. — Justin Kroll, Deadline, 31 July 2026 This dark ability is expressed by the image of people getting knocked back, one after another, as if by a magnetic field, as the villain’s telepathic abilities jump from one host to the next. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 July 2026 Like her mother, Rachel possesses powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities and has been a key figure in several X-Men storylines involving time travel and alternate realities. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026 The absolute key to France’s attack is the telepathic understanding brewing between Mbappé and Olise, whose combined trickery and close control are in perfect harmony. — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 27 June 2026

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psychic

Adjective

What we’re left with is the image of the fanatic, leaving prints on the grass, chasing the President’s golf cart to no avail, working out her psychic need in the epistolary form, writing as much to herself as to her addressee.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
In defiance of such norms, though, Israel’s government seems to be targeting hospitals, creating psychic wounds alongside mass casualties.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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