Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Foreseeing the future: Having the supposed ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.
   • Perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses: Having clear insight or understanding, especially of future events, without using ordinary senses.

2. Noun:

   • Someone who has the power of clairvoyance: A person, often a psychic or medium, who claims the ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception.

Examples

• Adjective:

  • Her clairvoyant vision of the accident was eerily accurate.
  • He made a clairvoyant prediction about the election results.

• Noun:

  • The clairvoyant claimed to communicate with spirits.
  • People consulted the clairvoyant for insights into their future.

Advanced Usage

• "To be clairvoyant about something": To have an uncanny or remarkably accurate insight into a specific future situation.

  • The CEO was clairvoyant about the market shift and prepared the company accordingly.

• Used figuratively: Describing someone with exceptional foresight or understanding in a non-supernatural context.

  • The historian's analysis of the political trends was almost clairvoyant.

Variants and Related Words

• Clairvoyance (n): The supposed faculty of perceiving things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.

  • She claimed her knowledge came from clairvoyance.

• Clairvoyantly (adv): In a clairvoyant manner.

  • He described the scene clairvoyantly, as if he had been there.

Synonyms

• Prophetic: Foretelling future events.
• Prescient: Having knowledge of events before they happen.
• Psychic: Sensitive to non-physical or supernatural forces.
• Visionary (adj): Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom.

Related Phrases

• "To have a clairvoyant moment": To experience a sudden, clear insight about a future event.
  • In a clairvoyant moment, she knew exactly what her next career move should be.

Related Idioms

• "A crystal ball": While not containing the word "clairvoyant," this idiom is conceptually related, referring to a means of predicting the future.
  • I don't have a crystal ball, so I can't tell you what will happen next year.

Adjective

1. foreseeing the future
2. perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses

Noun

1. someone who has the power of clairvoyance