a. [f. as prec. + ÆSTHETIC.]

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  1.  Having physical perception of things at a distance.

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1890.  C. Ll. Morgan, Anim. Life & Intell. (1891), 249. This temperature-sense, unlike the sense of touch, may make us aware of distant bodies. It is what we may term a telæsthetic sense in contradistinction to a contact sense…. Sight like hearing is a telæsthetic sense. Through it we become aware of certain vibratory states of more or less distant objects.

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  2.  Psychics. Of or belonging to telæsthesia.

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1903.  Myers, Human Personality, I. p. xlv. This may be done through … telæsthetic dreams or visions.

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1903.  Athenæum, 28 Feb., 277/1. Examples of apparently clairvoyant, or telepathic, or telæsthetic cases.

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