Metapsychic can have several meanings:
- A person with extraordinary mental powers (aka Metapsychic powers). Metapsychics can be further subdivided into subcategories depending on the expression type of their ability:
- Operant vs. latent.
- Power class: Normal, Master, Grandmaster, or Paramount.
- Effect type: Creative, Coercive, Farsensing, Psychokinetic, or Redactive. D-jump and Prolepsis may also be considered effect types, but could be a synthesis of other powers.
- A type of mental power that beyond normal mental abilities or even Intellectual giftedness (eidetic memory, Mental calculator, perfect pitch, etc.) usually characterized by the ability to effect change outside the person with the mental ability.