mindshot
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mindshot (uncountable)
- The range within which one person can telepathically hear another's thoughts.
- 2014, Dixie Lyle, To Die Fur: A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Mystery[1], page 35:
- That's the thing about telepathic conversations: You never quite know how far your “voice” will carry, or if someone else is within earshot—I mean mindshot—or if you're “speaking”— braintalking?—too loud or too quiet.
- 2014, Jack McKinney, Robotech: Rubicon:
- “Well,” he said, when the armless Haydonite had hovered into mindshot, “what do you think?” He heard a bellike [sic] sound in his mind before Veidt's short telepathic statement took shape.