psionics

Mental powers, especially those under conscious control, that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis.

Noun

  1. Mental powers, especially those under conscious control, that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis.
    • In any case, psionics appears quite legitimately in science fiction. - 1976, Reginald Bretnor, The Craft of Science Fiction:
    • In the 1960s, Campbell abandoned his public obsessions with psionics and pseudo-science. - 1998, Gary Westfahl, The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction:

Origin

Etymology tree English psi English -onics English psionics From psi (“psychic energy”) + -onics.