Thread: Psychic, psionic, what else...?

hi guys; I am looking for a term to describe a 'psychic', foir use in a campaign. I don't want psychic (I want to keep clear water with fakers) and I don't want to use psionic.

I want something scientific sounding so some (vaguely) plausible prefix + suffix kind of term.

Any help or suggestions gratefully received.

Async: Eclipse Phase term for people with psionics/Watts-McCloud virus.
Mentalist: the 'psionic' class in Role Master - not terribly scientific sounding though

What can they do? What is the setting?

Something ESPer or PreCog? Seer or Mentalist? Metaphysical Casuist?

Basically full array of psychic powers from the BGB (plus some others).

Mentalist, seer etc are a bit too old fashioned for my needs; need something with a modern sound if that makes sense. Was trying to work with pysch-/psycho- and a long list of suffixes yesterday, but not much luck.

Mespers?
Minders?
Gleaners?
Psions?
Viewers?
PsyUsers?
Evolves?
NeuroEvolvers?
NeuroSynchs?
CogPaths?
HyperCogs?
PsyCogs? (probably my favourite out of this list for SciFi Psionics)

My favorite term is "witch", and I don't see a problem with "sensitive", "psi", "psion", or "paranormal" (or "para" for short). If you want something sciencey how about psychoenergist or psychoactive (which also describes hallucinogenic substances, admittedly). You could also come up with an acronym or code word: EPP (epicenter of paranormal phenomena), Anomaly, Active, Red King, Ganzfelder (after the Ganzfeld experiment), etc.

I think Psions could be closest to the feel of what I want.

Odd question - anyone know of a citing web-site for new-ish words that *might* list any provenance of a word like that?

"Tele Sapiens" is what came to my mind. Not sure if it's in the direction you're looking for though.

Edit: As in telepathic, telekinetic, etc. The prefix "tele-" means to bridge long distances. You could set it up as if psions are classified as a different species technically?

That could be something i use, cheers.

Psychics are going to be a secret thing to begin with, but that would not stop one of the secret organizations that know about them classifying them in that way. Thanks.