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CLAIRVOYANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clairvoyance mean? 

CLAIRVOYANCE (noun)
  The noun CLAIRVOYANCE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CLAIRVOYANCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLAIRVOYANCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clairvoyance; E.S.P.; ESP; extrasensory perception; second sight

Hypernyms ("clairvoyance" is a kind of...):

parapsychology; psychic phenomena; psychic phenomenon (phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clairvoyance"):

foreknowledge; precognition (knowledge of an event before it occurs)

Derivation:

clairvoyant (foreseeing the future)

clairvoyant (perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses)


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