psychic powers, energy, or ability; the field of psychic phenomena; cf. psi n., psionic adj.
If they had known psionics, their children would never have relapsed into savagery.
Stripped of all those mechanisms that many million minds had helped to make, he couldn’t hope to do much with his own small smattering of neutrionics and psionics.
Seems that gravitics is the key to everything. It would lead to the addition of one more item to the Unified Field—what we now call psychic energy, or ‘psionics’.
Our independent research has taught us just enough about psionics to show we can’t imagine its potentialities.
At the very least, it can lead to stories that are filled with jargon such as space warp, psionics, antigravs, droids and such.
‘A mind mage?’ he asked quietly, a Luskar slang for those rare and reputably powerful practitioners of the concentration art known as psionics. ‘A monk?’
antedating 1951
J. Williamson 'The Greatest Invention'
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