extrasensory perception n perception (as in telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition) that involves awareness of information about events external to the self not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience called also ESP
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a supposed way of perceiving that involves none of the known senses. Clairvoyance is the extrasensory perception of current events; precognition is extrasensory perception of future events; telepathy is the extrasensory perception of the thoughts of others.
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(ESP) knowledge of, or response to, an external thought or objective event by means other than the senses.Medical dictionary. 2011.