What is another word for extrasensory?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛkstɹəzənsəɹˌi] (IPA)

Extrasensory perception typically implies the ability to perceive or gather information from beyond the five senses. However, there are also several synonyms for this term that indicate similar phenomena. Clairvoyant describes someone who has insight or perceives things that are beyond normal senses. Premonition implies a feeling or enthralling sense of something that is soon to happen. Intuition and sixth sense both indicate a deep understanding or knowledge that cannot be explained through regular means. Telepathy or mind reading involves the ability to communicate or gather information through means beyond spoken language. While the term "extrasensory" may be the most common, there are many other words that describe the same phenomenon.

What are the hypernyms for Extrasensory?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for extrasensory?

The term "extrasensory" refers to abilities beyond the normal senses, such as telepathy, clairvoyance or intuition. Its antonyms, words with opposite meanings, would refer to senses and perceptions that are common to everyone. Examples include "sensory," which relates to the five senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, or "perceptible," which describes things that can be perceived or sensed through the senses. "Ordinary," "mundane" or "commonplace" are also antonyms, referring to things that are unremarkable or lacking in special powers. These antonyms remind us that while extra-sensory abilities may be fascinating, there is still much to marvel at in the ordinary world.

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Usage examples for Extrasensory

"You must understand that our modern Statisticalists are the intellectual heirs of those ancient materialistic thinkers who denied the possibility of any discarnate existence, or of any extraphysical mind, or even of extrasensory perception.
"Last Enemy"
Henry Beam Piper
extrasensory perception or something psychological?
"A Fine Fix"
R. C. Noll
extrasensory perception can't replace sight, any more than sight can replace hearing.
"Psichopath"
Gordon Randall Garrett

Famous quotes with Extrasensory

  • Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
    Alexis Carrel
  • Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
    Alexis Carrel
  • The weakness of the attack lies in its lack of discrimination. It is possible that psychic surgery is a hoax, that plants cannot really read our minds, that Kirlian photography (photographing the "life-aura" of living creatures) may depend on some simple electrical phenomenon. But to lump all of these together as if they were all on the same level of improbability shows a certain lack of discernment. The same applies to the list of "hoaxes." Rhine's careful research into extrasensory perception at Duke University is generally conceded to be serious and sincere, even by people who think his test conditions were too loose. The famous fairy photographs are quite probably a hoax, but no one has ever produced an atom of proof either way, and until someone does, no one can be quite as confident as the editors of seem to be. And Ted Serios has never at any time been exposed as a fraud — although obviously he might be. We see here a phenomena that we shall encounter again in relation to Geller: that when a scientist or a "rationalist" sets himself up as the defender of reason, he often treats logic with a disrespect that makes one wonder what side he is on.
    Colin Wilson
  • “The Void Which Binds is touched by all of us who have wept with happiness, bidden a lover good-bye, been exalted with orgasm, stood over the grave of a loved one, or watched our baby open his or her eyes for the first time.” Aenea is looking at me as she speaks, and I feel the gooseflesh rise along my arms. “The Void Which Binds is always under and above the surface of our thoughts and senses,” she continues, invisible but as present as the breathing of our beloved next to us in the night. Its actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.”
    Dan Simmons

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