Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The production or control of motion, especially in inanimate and remote objects, purportedly by the exercise of psychic powers.
Wiktionary
- n. parapsychology The controlled movement of an inanimate object by the use of psychic powers. Abbreviated as PK.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force
Etymologies
- From psycho- + -kinesis. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For example, the physicists snookered by magicians (e.g. Uri Gellar) into believing in psychokinesis.”
Building a Better Idiot, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“1914 American author Henry Holy came up with the term "psychokinesis," although at the time they meant the same thing.”
“And for all of you who think Matthew C is a rigorously rational-minded fellow, on his blog he praises a man for making the following statement: "... the evidence for catastrophic global warming in the near future is far, far less compelling than the evidence for telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, and even life after death.”
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But she can use it as psychokinesis on metal, as well as protection from guns.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Faraway Soul’s Review Forum
“The Summum aphorisms include “the principle of psychokinesis” and “the principle of correspondence.””
U.S. Supreme Court turns down Summum sect’s demand for religious display
“Popularly called PSI studies, noetic sciences studies the phenomenon of telepathy, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, precognition, ESP and OBE out of body experiences.”
“It was only a matter of a few years of computer assisted data-mining before two high school students worked out most of the correlations to character defects, predispositions to substance abuse, sexual orientation, mathematical genius, artistic gifts, psychokinesis and so on - even being accident-prone.”
Now, everybody knows the day and the hour: a little healthcare fantasy
“Paranormal has been used to describe the supposed phenomena of extra-sensory perception, including telepathy, and psychokinesis, ghosts, and hauntings.”
“Other experiments described in this paper demonstrated retroactive psychokinesis influencing the behavior of living systems.”
“And when I heard about the Nite Owl or more appropriately Nite Owl II all I could think was, this is the Great And Powerful Turtle without the psychokinesis.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘psychokinesis’.
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Psychology
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Ultrapow
A mighty myriad of Mister Mxyzptlk manifestation. This list leans towards one-word superpowers and occasionally the ridiculous.
Spin-off lists: Ultrafrow - absurd powers, Flossational...telepathy, psychometry, retrocognition, precognition, clairvoyance, mediumship, illusions, mind-control, mindblast, telekinesis, thermokinesis, quantokinesis and 142 more...
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aozuas's Words
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Magicians & magic tricks
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