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far-feeling en · NOUN

From far + feeling. Calque of Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “at a distance, far off, far away, far from”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering, strong feeling”).

(dated) Telepathy.
- I frankly find it inconceivable that at any period of man's history, this faculty of far-feeling, this cognisance of distant minds, should have been developed by the actual need and stress of earthly existence. 1898, Professor G.T. W. Patrick, “Reviews”, in Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 14, number 34, page 385:
- But really one could not at the time resist the impression that the writers were amusing themselves at the expense of their readers, in gravely informing them that a brain could act telepathically an hour after the man was dead. Surely this was pushing the far-feeling theory a little too far. 1885, College of Psychic Studies (London, England), Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress), London Spiritualist Alliance (contributors), “The Telepathic Theory”, in Light, A Journal Of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research, volume 5, number 219, page 121:
- Farther-feeling as distinct from far-feeling, i.e., from a distance instead of from the sitter. 1917, “Some New Light On The Future Life?”, in The Unpopular Review, volume 7, numbers 13-14, page 408:
- With many it denotes a process of such far-feeling as is not caused in the natural way and as stands in contradiction to the mechanical interconnection of causes and effects in the universe. 1891, Paul Carus, The Monist, volume 1, page 85: