telekinesis – English noun declension

English noun forms of telekinesis

Noun: telekinesis
Singulartelekinesis
Pluraltelekineses

Sample Sentences

  • Telekinetic energy, which has been variously designated as psychic force (Sir William Crookes), ectenic force (Professor Thury), and telekinesis (Professor Cowes), is demonstrably a power or faculty of the subjective mind. [1899, Thomson Jay Hudson, The Divine Pedigree of Man, page 154:]
  • And this brings me to a consideration of how the phenomena of telekinesis may conceivably be produced — granting that the phenomena are ever genuine at all. [1920, Hereward Carrington, The Physical Phenomena of Spiritualism, page 367:]
  • He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis. [1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 61:]
  • 'Venison' he declared, mentally lifting the animal through the air toward him without a second thought to the act, though telekinesis was a spell that hadn't been in the considerable repertoire of Morkai the Red. [1988, Robert Salvatore, The Crystal Shard, page 39:]
  • She regards telekinesis as impossible and claims for it as generally fraudulent. For two years she worked in a university laboratory testing telekinesis, [2000, Fred M. Frohock, Lives of the Psychics: The Shared Worlds of Science and Mysticism, page 29:]
  • Perhaps the most famous demonstrations of telekinesis came in the 1970s when a young psychic from Russia named Uri Geller came to prominence for his ability to bend spoons and other metal objects without any physical contact. [2002, Rita Berkowtiz with Deborah S. Romaine, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communicating with Spirits, page 187:]
  • And if voice-activated control isn't enough, we could someday use telekinesis to control lights with our thoughts. [2006, Richard Cadena, Automated Lighting, page 434:]

Etymology

From tele- + -kinesis.

Verbs referencing "telekinesis"

Finnish Nouns telekineesi.