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单词 telaesthesia
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Definition of telaesthesia in English:

telaesthesia

(US telesthesia)
noun ˌtɛlɪsˈθiːzɪə
mass noun
  • The supposed perception of distant occurrences or objects by means other than the known senses.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The everyday experience of geography is now also a collective experience of the virtual geography of global media events as the world-making and world-disclosing vectors of the television, telephone and tele-satellite uplinks make telethesia - perception at a distance - an integral part of late twentieth century ‘human’ faculties and capabilities.
    • I prefer telethetic and telethesia to telemetry because the word telemetry is also used by the armed forces to describe a mechanical means of gathering long range data.
    • The apparatus is one of telethesia.

Derivatives

  • telesthetic

  • adjective-ˈθɛtɪk
    • It provided a telesthetic experience of human interaction that was personal despite being remote.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • ‘Okuden includes Hatsureiho, patting with hands method, stroking with hands method, pressing with hands method, telesthetic method and propensity method.’
      • However, as these images evince, he has now fully submerged himself into the forbidden repose of industry's telesthetic mania.

Origin

Late 19th century: from tele- + Greek aisthēsis 'perception'.

Definition of telesthesia in US English:

telesthesia

(British telaesthesia)
nounˌteləsˈTHēZH(ē)əˌtɛləsˈθiʒ(i)ə
  • The supposed perception of distant occurrences or objects by means other than the known senses.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I prefer telethetic and telethesia to telemetry because the word telemetry is also used by the armed forces to describe a mechanical means of gathering long range data.
    • The apparatus is one of telethesia.
    • The everyday experience of geography is now also a collective experience of the virtual geography of global media events as the world-making and world-disclosing vectors of the television, telephone and tele-satellite uplinks make telethesia - perception at a distance - an integral part of late twentieth century ‘human’ faculties and capabilities.

Origin

Late 19th century: from tele- + Greek aisthēsis ‘perception’.

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