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.

Noun

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