Psions

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Individuals who possess psychic or mental abilities, such as telepathy or telekinesis, often in science fiction and fantasy
2. People believed to have extraordinary mind-based powers like reading thoughts or moving objects without touching them
3. Gifted persons said to wield paranormal mental abilities, a term common in role-playing games and speculative fiction

Etymology: "Psions" is the plural of "psion", a word for a hypothetical unit of mental energy or a psychic particle, imagined by analogy with the physical particles of matter. The singular "psion" is the form the word's history rests on, so the plural simply follows the regular English pattern of adding "s" to form a count noun.