§ 21. mental telepathy. 2. Style. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996

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A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.

2. Style: Parallelism, Passives, Redundancy, and Wordiness

§ 21. mental telepathy

If you are telepathic, are you also mental? The phrase mental telepathy ought to be regarded as redundant, but like some other fixed phrases, such as hollow tube, it has become so well established that the objection smacks of nitpicking.	1