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mindread

mindread

See also: mind-read

English

Verb

mindread (third-person singular simple present mindreads, present participle mindreading, simple past and past participle mindread)

  1. To read someone's mind.
    • 1988 June 3, Rose Ann Chasman, “Unacceptable Level of Omissions”, in Chicago Reader:
      In contrast, she mindreads with a negative bias--"clearly (sic) he thinks."
    • 2006, Alvin I. Goldman, Simulating Minds, ISBN 0199881421, page 103:
      A similar point applies to the mindreading of fictional characters, as when one mindreads a character in a novel.
    • 2011, Bob Bodenhamer, I Have a Voice: How to stop stuttering, ISBN 1845907531:
      The PWS frequently mindreads other people as judging them because they stutter.