farfeelingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɑːfiːlɪŋ/

名詞

farfeeling

1. Alternative form of far-feeling

発音

• IPA: /ˈfɑːfiːlɪŋ/

名詞

far-feeling

1. (parapsychology, science fiction, fantasy, puristic, dated) Telepathy.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1891, Paul Carus, The Monist, volume 1, page 85:

     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.

   • 1898, Professor G.T. W. Patrick, “Reviews”, in Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research‎, volume 14, number 34, page 385:

     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.

   • 1917, “Some New Light On The Future Life?”, in The Unpopular Review‎, volume 7, numbers 13-14, page 408:

     Farther-feeling as distinct from far-feeling, i.e., from a distance instead of from the sitter.