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(science fiction) Mental powers, especially those under conscious control, that affect physical matter, such as telekinesis. quotations examples
In any case, psionics appears quite legitimately in science fiction.
1976, Reginald Bretnor, The Craft of Science Fiction
In the 1960s, Campbell abandoned his public obsessions with psionics and pseudo-science.
1998, Gary Westfahl, The Mechanics of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction