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telekinesis
An example of telekinesis in action.

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telekinesis (s) (noun), telekineses (pl)
1. The supposed mental ability to control the movement of objects from a distance as with "psychokinesis": Sam told his children that he had the power of telekinesis and could remove a stone from one side of the river and place it on the other side, but after a while, he said it was just a joke!

Telekinesis is the ability to influence the behavior of material objects with mental control alone.

Psychokinesis, "mind-movement", or PK, is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis or "distant-movement".

2. Etymology: from Greek tele-, "at a distance" + Greek kinesis, "motion, movement" from kinein, "to move".
Referring to objects which are moved with mental powers.
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Since 2004, the term "remote influencing" is used by some people to express certain kinds of psychokinesis.