clairvoyance

5 9.8

A claimed ability to know about people, places, or events without using the usual senses

noun
/klɛrˈvɔɪəns/

: clarividencia

As a child she exhibited a gift for clairvoyance.
clairvoyance and extrasensory perception

This episode is going to touch on some topics such as telepathy, clairvoyance, psychic ability, what it means to have a near death experience.

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Examples

Analogously, clairvoyance assumes that information is received from the environment in a non-sensory way.

Academic text (1995)
Even if they had, it would not explain the empathy, perception, and clairvoyance found in her report.

Academic text (1990)
And so I hope that when I read the guidance, all of this will have been taken into account with great clairvoyance by the Minister.
Throughout Africa, the head is considered to be a primary seat of power, the locus of wisdom and clairvoyance.

Academic text (1995)
Out of body experiences were known during the Victorian period in spiritualist literature as traveling clairvoyance.

Angels and Demons Are Real (2017)
Most romantic poets flaunted an unyielding confidence in their poetry's power of clairvoyance, which enables it to bridge the unbearable gap between language and the poet's "self."

Academic text (2005)
Many people believe that she has clairvoyance, allowing her to sense things before they happen.
The psychic claimed she could use clairvoyance to provide insights about her clients' futures.
Studies on clairvoyance have sparked interest in the scientific community regarding extrasensory perception.

Synonyms

sixth sense

vsclairvoyance

17 7.6

A natural feeling that tells you things without using sight, hearing, touch, smell, or taste

is the claimed power to gain factual information rather than inner intuition

ESP

vsclairvoyance

14 8.8

The claimed ability to know things without using the five usual senses

is the claimed power to gain such information via that ability

divination

vsclairvoyance

8 9.9

The act of trying to find the future using magic or signs

focuses on direct extrasensory obtaining of information rather than ritual practices

second sight

vsclairvoyance

Literature

3 9.9

To see or know things before they happen

is the same kind of knowledge but not limited to predicting future events

extrasensory perception

vsclairvoyance

1 8.7

A supposed ability to know things without using the normal senses

is the specific supposed power to gain information through this perception

E.S.P.

vsclairvoyance

9.9

A claimed ability to know things without using the normal senses

is the same ability but named in full modern wording without dots

telegnosis

vsclairvoyance

Archaic

9.9

To know about events far away without using your senses

is the more common modern term for this exact supernatural ability

How Extrasensory

clairvoyance

5 9.8

second sight

Literature

3 9.9

premonition

74 7.7

intuition

127 5.5

hunch

159 4.7

Surface Forms

clairvoyance singular

clairvoyances plural

Morphology

clairvoyance = clairvoyant (opaque) = clair + voy + ance

Forming the noun from the adjective 'clairvoyant' is a regular nominalization pattern, but it relies on learned French-derived morphology rather than productive English parts.

Etymology

Clairvoyance comes from the French parts clair ('clear') and voir ('to see'), so it literally means 'clear seeing'. That's why clairvoyance is used for the claimed power to 'see' things beyond normal senses, like a kind of inner 'vision'.