clairvoyance
nounUS /klɛɹˈvɔɪəns/ · UK /klɛəˈvɔɪəns/
Etymology Borrowed from French clairvoyance.
1
Parapsychology, Pseudoscience Usually The power to see or perceive things, objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.
2
Usually Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness; sagacity.
- Related terms
- clairvoyant, claircognizance, clairsentience, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, clear-sightedness
- Hyponyms
- clairaudience, metagnomy, precognition, psychometry, retrocognition, second sight