mind meld

English

Etymology

From the Star Trek franchise, where the term was first used in 1966 for a telepathic ability possessed by the alien race of Vulcans to share thoughts and feelings with another individual.

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Noun

mind meld

  1. (colloquial) A state of deep compatibility in opinion or plans between two people.
    • 2018, Didier Ndongala Mumbata, Barack Obama, The Political Phenomenon, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 134:
      By this point, Axelrod's mind meld with Obama was so complete that the two men barely needed to speak.

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