psionic

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /saɪˈɒn.ɪk/

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Adjective

psionic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to psionics.
   • 1951, Jack Williamson, James Henry Schmitz, Astounding Science Fiction 1951-03: Volume 47, Issue 1‎, Penny Publications, page 130:

     He had honestly tried to understand the commander, but they came from different worlds. Although they could talk easily enough, with the tiny psionic translators they wore like hearing aids. Bowman’s hawknosed, black-pigmented face seemed as forbiddingly foreign as his life was strange.

   • 1971, John Trevena, Heather‎, Ace Books, page 41:

     "So." Rod touched his pursed lips to his steepled fingertips. "Somebody overseas lends the beastmen a huge surge of psionic power— in electrical form, of course; we re assuming psionics is based on an electrical phenomenon. The beastmen channel the power into their own projective telepathy, throw it into the soldiers' minds— somehow, eye contact seems to be necessary there— and from the soldiers' minds, it flows into the witches, immediately knocking out anyone who's tuned in . . . only temporarily, thank Heaven."

   • 1978, Richard Carlton Meredith, Vestiges of Time‎, Doubleday, page 447:

     Again the Krithian females struck against him, battering his shields again and again, smashing through them, tearing them down one after the other, forcing piercing lances of psionic force through them and into him.

Derived terms

• psionically
• psionicist

Translations

of or relating to psionics

Chinese: Mandarin: 靈能的 / 灵能的 (língnéng de), 幽能的 (yōunéng de) French: psionique (fr) m or f German: psionisch (rare) Hungarian: pszionikus Spanish: psiónico