"thought transference" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 39:",
          "text": "This time they got into print, all right. But the much-handled stories, written up with that blend of cautiously defensive frivolity which the press habitually employed to cover themselves in matters regarding sea-serpents, elementals, thought-transference, and other irregular phenomena, prevented anyone from realizing that these accomplished plants at all resembled the quiet, respectable weed beside our rubbish heap.",
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          "ref": "1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 108:",
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        "(pseudoscience) The supposed ability to transmit thoughts, images, or mental states directly from one mind to another without any known sensory channel."
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