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单词 psionics
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psionicsn.

Brit. /sʌɪˈɒnɪks/, U.S. /saɪˈɑnɪks/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: psionic adj.
Etymology: < psionic adj.: see -ic suffix 2.
With singular agreement. Psychic powers, energy, or ability; the field of psychic phenomena.
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the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > study of
psychical research1883
psychic research1885
psychicism1892
psychs1927
psychics1942
psionics1952
1952 J. Williamson Man Down in Astounding Sci. Fiction Mar. 112/1 Stripped of all those mechanisms that many million minds had helped to make, he couldn't hope to do much with his own small smattering of neutrionics and psionics.
1960 P. Anderson in ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF Five (1963) 228 Research has taught us just enough about psionics to show we can't imagine its potentialities.
1976 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 28 Nov. 5/1 How do you build an ESP or psionics device?
2005 Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) (Nexis) 14 Sept. They battle biker gangs, a paranoid military industrial complex and a secret government experiment in psionics gone awry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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