telempathy n.
the psionic ability to sense others’ emotions
[blend of telepathy + empathy]
Paranormal
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1952 Gualcophone in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 115
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Alan Nelson
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Soon people may literally talk with their emotions. Telempathy—if I may coin a word.
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1963 Telempathy in Amazing Stories June 63/1
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Vance Simonds
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Who needs Telempathy? This cat is so phony, any gossoon can peg him.
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1970 Spock must Die! xv. 115
James Blish
The link between the replicate and myself was not telepathy, but something I should call ‘telempathy’—an emotional rapport, not an intellectual one.
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1997 Mustard Seed in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Aug. 136
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Mark Bourne
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The Gift of my species is a specialized telempathy.
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2011 Extremis xiii. 241
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Steve White
Charles E. Gannon
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One of its most unusual and dissimilar features is that her variety of telempathy permits her no guile or misrepresentation. If she thinks a falsehood, that inveracity registers immediately and unmistakably along with the message itself.
Research requirements
antedating 1952
Earliest cite
Alan Nelson
Research History
Bee Ostrowsky submitted a 2011 cite from Steve White and Charles E. Gannon
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