ESP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ESP mean? 

• ESP (noun)
  The noun ESP has 1 sense:

1. apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

  Familiarity information: ESP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clairvoyance; E.S.P.; ESP; extrasensory perception; second sight

Hypernyms ("ESP" is a kind of...):

parapsychology; psychic phenomena; psychic phenomenon (phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ESP"):

foreknowledge; precognition (knowledge of an event before it occurs)

 Context examples 

Situated outside of a capsule, esp. outside the capsular ligament of a joint.

(Extracapsular, NCI Thesaurus)