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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Knowledge of events outside of normal sensory perception. uncountable
2. 2
   apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek τηλε (tēle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”) + γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”).

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