cryptaesthesiacryptesthesian.
/ˌkrɪptᵻsˈθiːzɪə/, /ˌkrɪptᵻsˈθiːʒə/, U.S. /ˌkrɪptəsˈθiʒiə/ Extrasensory perception, esp. telepathy or clairvoyance; a faculty for this.
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the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > extrasensory perception
cryptaesthesia1911
extra-sensory perception1934
ESP1974
1911 H. Carrington tr. T. Flournoy Spiritism & Psychol. iv. 116 These two hypotheses which exist fundamentally side by side—cryptæsthesia [Fr. la cryptoesthésie] (latent perception) and cryptomnesia [Fr. la cryptomnésie] (latent memory).
1920 C. Richet in Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Psychical Res. 14 498 He has put beyond question..the clairvoyance, telepathy, lucidity, cryptesthesia (the name matters little) of Mrs. Piper and certain other sensitives.
1923 S. De Brath tr. C. Richet Thirty Years Psychical Res. ii. ii. 64 A single phenomenon which the magnetizers of a past age called ‘lucidity’ or ‘clairvoyance’ (hellsehen); which is now called telepathy... I propose to name it cryptesthesia.
1926 Spectator 9 Oct. 601/2 The dowser..is a person endowed with a subconscious supernormal cryptesthesia.
1952 A. Ginsberg Jrnl. Apr. (1977) i. 11 I am an old gossip over the backyard hedge with Dr. A—. No evidences of spiritual violence or cryptesthesia.
2000 C. Rooney Afr. Lit., Animism & Politics i. 113 Royle's reading of cryptaesthesia in Telepathy and Literature shows well how that which is saved from death..is a case of crossing thresholds.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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