What's the difference between clairvoyance and telepathy?

Clairvoyance


Definition:

  • (n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In summary, the development of programs in the community serving the severely and chronically mentally ill is a political-sociological activity requiring a detailed working knowledge of the community to be involved, a clear understanding of objectives and specific agreements related to the program to be developed, adequate and stable funding, appropriate supportive and ancillary resources, significant bureaucratic skill and flexibility, adequate time for appropriate community education and feedback from key community leaders, a certain amount of clairvoyance in anticipating difficulties and unexpected problems, an immense amount of perseverance and, finally--and probably as important as any other single element--timing and luck.
  • (2) She is currently working with a clairvoyant who tells her to do certain things, go to certain places.
  • (3) Carl Jung displayed all five of these features in his life and psychotherapy, including dreams and waking fantasies in childhood; the use of active imagination in the induction of an ASC; contact with forces, knowledge, and power of the unconscious; a dual "personality," and the dialogue with the inner world--the unconscious, the realm of the archetypes; the use of these discoveries to counsel, advise, and heal; and psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences.
  • (4) mystics, conjurors and clairvoyants, set in France and England during the late 1920s, Magic In The Moonlight harks back to the lamest titles in the Woody filmography.
  • (5) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
  • (6) Nor does it take a clairvoyant to imagine that Blair thinks Miliband has aligned himself with the wrong crowd (Blair would never, for example, have been seen as leader on a TUC demo or speaking at the Durham Miner's Gala ).
  • (7) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.
  • (8) For as long as Gibson has been a writer, he has had to remind people not to regard him as a clairvoyant.
  • (9) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
  • (10) The film's US distributors Sony Pictures Classics filled in lots of the blanks on10 July, when they released a long-form synopsis , explaining that Firth plays a stage magician who is on a mission to debunk professional clairvoyant Stone.
  • (11) Tom Binns's masterstroke is to couple his Montfort character with actual clairvoyant ability, or at least, a talent for simulating it.
  • (12) Yell.com listed 1,428 entries under "Psychics and Clairvoyants" when I started work on this in June.
  • (13) And while I don’t have the clairvoyance to predict which of the many cases currently winding their way through the courts will make its way first to the Supreme Court, what I do know is that the ruling in that case, like the decision in Windsor, will be in favor of equality.
  • (14) And there are all sorts of people there, like a retired colonel and a famous lady clairvoyant and an angry young man and a flighty young thing – isn't this just a fascinating cast of characters?
  • (15) Therapists are concerned that the courts are expecting them to be clairvoyant and that psychologists may not be able to predict dangerousness.
  • (16) The former school houses youth clubs, dance sessions, pensioners' get-togethers, and entertainment from taekwondo to clairvoyancy evenings.
  • (17) You saw the results.” The results made Snover look like a clairvoyant and her Republican peers look blind.
  • (18) The trail went cold until 2005, when a self-styled spiritual healer and clairvoyant, Mina Minic, answered a ring on his doorbell in Belgrade to find himself face-to-face with a tall man with a long bushy beard, abundant white hair done up in a top-knot tied with a black ribbon.
  • (19) When Brazil attacked they were thwarted by Bobby Moore who 'as always in this World Cup,' wrote Mcllvanney, 'was magnificent, interpreting the designs of the opposition with clairvoyant understanding and subduing their most spirited assaults with brusque authority.'
  • (20) One doesn’t have to be clairvoyant or even wait for the results, to discern the shape of the future.

Telepathy


Definition:

  • (n.) The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This kind of reading feeds our imaginations and in them, we create people and places and experiences, in what Will Self described beautifully, as a kind of telepathy.
  • (2) Schneider's first rank symptoms and a belief in telepathy discriminated schizophrenics more reliably than other paranormal experiences.
  • (3) We report the case of a paranoid schizophrenic man who suffered from the delusion that two other men used mental telepathy to make him itch over a period of thirteen years.
  • (4) The phenomenon of telepathy in the treatment process is explained by reference to the subliminal theory of dreams of psychoanalysis and to certain aspects of experimental dream research.
  • (5) The belief that one can read others' minds has long been considered a symptom of psychosis, despite reports in the parapsychological literature of veridical telepathy.
  • (6) The crows parted from their flexible host, lacking the telepathy or ability to keep up.
  • (7) Especially interested in telepathy, and in general, extrasensory perception phenomena, he contributed decisively to the creation of a new science, metapsychics.
  • (8) Working with any film-maker, he says, involves a degree of telepathy.
  • (9) Empathy and diversity were expected to be related to telepathy levels.
  • (10) You’ll roll a set of six dice which let you score points, attack other monsters or build up energy which you can use to gain special powers like telepathy, fiery breath or an extra head.
  • (11) The gifted Brazilian was inspired against Jürgen Klopp’s side, creating the opening goal for Daniel Sturridge with a sublime touch, scoring the third and reassuring the Liverpool faithful that quick thinking, telepathy and glorious creativity has not disappeared from the team along with Luis Suárez.
  • (12) The authors conclude that this experiment strongly suggests the possibility of telepathy, but does not prove it.
  • (13) Possible psychodynamics of delusions of telepathy were discussed in view of the predominance of women and younger men reporting them, as were the possible effects of such research on patients' delusions.
  • (14) The purpose of this study was to examine empathy, diversity, and telepathy in natural mother-daughter dyads.
  • (15) By 1937, having recorded independently of each other, they cut some startlingly elegant music together, displaying an unparalleled musical compatibility that verged on telepathy.
  • (16) Results indicated that one form of empathy (personal distress) and diversity were significantly (p less than .05) related to telepathy.
  • (17) They’re like a murmur of crows, they seem able to read where their team-mates are going with something close to telepathy.
  • (18) Multiple regression analysis showed that 6% of the variance in telepathy was accounted for by diversity and empathy.
  • (19) And he argues that the game of chess is a "certain code that another civilization gave us" and suggests that it could help man recover his lost abilities of flight and telepathy.
  • (20) Today, the ancient memory arts have applications in pilot training, gambling, mentalism and telepathy demonstrations, and may have a role in the rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients.