far-feeling

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far-feeling

/ˈfɑːfiːlɪŋ/

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

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dated Telepathy. 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.

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@misc{far_feeling_2026,
  title = {far-feeling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/far-feeling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}