mind meld

English

Etymology

From the Star Trek franchise, where the term was first used in 1966 for a telepathic ability possessed by the alien race of Vulcans to share thoughts and feelings with another individual.

Noun

mind meld

1. (colloquial) A state of deep compatibility in opinion or plans between two people.
   • 2018, Didier Ndongala Mumbata, Barack Obama, The Political Phenomenon, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:

     By this point, Axelrod's mind meld with Obama was so complete that the two men barely needed to speak.

Related terms

• mindmeld

 

Further reading

• “mind-meld, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.