means The supposed transmission of thoughts or feelings from one mind to another without using the ordinary senses or speech.

from Coined in the 1880s by the British essayist and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers, who stitched together two Greek pieces: tele-, "far off" (the same distance-spanning prefix in telephone and television), and -patheia, "feeling" (cousin to pathos and sympathy). Literally "feeling at a distance" — a word built by people who founded the Society for Psychical Research and badly wanted the thing to be real.