clairvoyance

/kleə'vɔiəns/

Thân thiện

A person uses clairvoyance to find a lost key in a park.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses: The supposed ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception, beyond the normal use of the five senses.
   • Unusual insight or foresight: Exceptional clear-sightedness or the ability to perceive future events.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The psychic claimed to have clairvoyance and could describe events from the past she had never witnessed.
  • Her clairvoyance about market trends made her a successful investor.
  • Many scientists remain skeptical about the existence of clairvoyance.

Advanced Usage

• "To have/show clairvoyance": To possess or demonstrate this extrasensory ability.
  • The detective in the novel seemed to have clairvoyance, solving cases with inexplicable hunches.
• Used in a figurative sense to describe remarkable insight.
  • The author's clairvoyance in predicting social changes was astonishing.

Variants and Related Words

• Clairvoyant (noun): A person who claims to have clairvoyance.
  • The clairvoyant offered to do a reading.
• Clairvoyant (adjective): Having or relating to clairvoyance.
  • She had a clairvoyant vision of the accident before it happened.

Synonyms

• Extrasensory perception (ESP): Perception occurring independently of the known senses.
• Second sight: The supposed power to see future events.
• Precognition: The supposed psychic phenomenon of seeing events in the future.
• Insight: The capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding.

Related Phrases

• "A flash of clairvoyance": A sudden, brief instance of such perception or insight.
  • In a flash of clairvoyance, he knew exactly what he had to do.

Related Idioms

• "To see with the mind's eye": To imagine or visualize something clearly, often used in contexts similar to clairvoyance.
  • The artist could see the finished sculpture with her mind's eye before she began.

Học thuật

Noun

1. apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

Từ đồng nghĩa

• second sight
• extrasensory perception
• E.S.P.
• ESP