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English
Etymology
ESP + -er from ESP (“extrasensory perception”).
Pronunciation
Noun
esper (plural espers)
- A person who practices the development of psychic ability.
- (chiefly science fiction) A person who has extrasensory perception.
1942 June, Edward Elmer Smith, “Storm Cloud on Deka”, in Astonishing Stories, volume 3, number 4:I don't know why anybody would be spying on me, either, but—I'm neither a Lensman nor an esper, but I'd swear that somebody's peeking over my shoulder half the time.
1950 August, Alfred Bester, “The Devil's Invention”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 45, number 6, page 139:But Espers can’t pick up any EK brain pattern farther than the horizon. It’s direct wave transmission. Even large objects cannot be penetrated. A building, say, or a—
Hyponyms
- (person having extrasensory perception): telepath
Translations
Anagrams
- Peers, Perse, Prees, Reeps, Spree, peers, per se, perse, pères, speer, spere, spree
Old Occitan
Etymology
Probably a deverbal of esperar.
Noun
esper m (oblique plural espers, nominative singular espers, nominative plural esper)
- hope
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