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extrasensory perception

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extrasensory perception
n.
Abbr. ESP Perception by means other than through the ordinary senses, as in telepathy, clairvoyance, or precognition.

extrasensory perception (ESP)
Etymology: L, extra + sentire, to feel, percipere, to perceive
alleged awareness or knowledge acquired without using the physical senses. See also clairvoyance, parapsychology, telepathy.

perception [per-sep´shun]
the conscious mental registration of a sensory stimulus. adj., adj percep´tive.
depth perception the ability to recognize depth or the relative distances to different objects in space.
disturbed sensory perception a nursing diagnosis accepted by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, defined as a change in the amount of patterning of incoming stimuli, accompanied by a diminished, exaggerated, distorted, or impaired response to such stimuli.
extrasensory perception (ESP) knowledge of, or response to, an external thought or objective event not achieved as the result of stimulation of the sense organs.

extrasensory perception,
n perception in which a person gains awareness of events without using the normal senses. Includes experiences such as clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy. Also called
ESP or
psi.

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The soldiers harness this extrasensory perception and telepathy by staring for hours at goats, hanging bags of sand on parts of their anatomy that shouldn't see the light of day in public, and telling themselves they can pass through solid objects.
The soldiers harness this extrasensory perception and telepathy by staring for hours at goats, hanging bags of sand on parts of their anatomy that shouldn't see the light of day in public, and telling themselves they can pass through solid objects.
Other abilities include clairaudience, being able to hear or perceive sounds which are not normally audible, clairsentience, the art of knowing about an event- past, present or future, through a feeling and clairvoyance, the extrasensory perception of an event which does not related to the normal five senses.
 
 
 
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