psychokinesis
/ˌsaɪkoʊkɪˈnisɪs/noun
psychokinesis is a noun meaning “The ability to interact with phenomena the use of psychic power, typically involving the movement of physical systems and objects. Abbreviated as PK” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-K-I-N-E-S-I-S and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of psychokinesis is psychokineses.
What does psychokinesis mean?
noun
- 1
The ability to interact with phenomena the use of psychic power, typically involving the movement of physical systems and objects. Abbreviated as PK.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce psychokinesis?
- US /ˌsaɪkoʊkɪˈnisɪs/
- UK /ˌsaɪkəʊkɪˈniːsɪs/
Psychokinesis has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-psychokinesis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of psychokinesis
- psychokineses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is psychokinesis?
Psychokinesis appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate psychokinesis?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of psychokinesis: PK.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Psychokinesis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense movement inanimate objects by the use of psychic power:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psychokinèse, psychokinésie, télékinésie |
| German | Psychokinese, Telekinese |
| Portuguese | telecinésia |
| Spanish | psicoquinesia, psicokinesia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does psychokinesis come from?
From psycho- + -kinesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).