telesthesia
/ˌteləsˈTHēZH(ē)ə
/(British telaesthesia)
noun
The supposed perception of distant occurrences or objects otherwise than by the recognized senses.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.
Derivatives
telesthetic
- ‘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.
- It provided a telesthetic experience of human interaction that was personal despite being remote.
Origin
Late 19th century: from tele- + Greek aisthēsis 'perception'.