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clairvoyance

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clair·voy·ance  (klâr-voins)
n.
1. The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.
2. Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness.

clairvoyance
Noun
the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses [French: clear-seeing]

clairvoyance
the ability to see, in a trance, into the world beyond the percep-tion of the normal senses, especially with the ability to predict future events. — clairvoyant, n., adj.
See also: Spirits and Spiritualism
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.clairvoyanceclairvoyance - apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
parapsychology, psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon - phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes
foreknowledge, precognition - knowledge of an event before it occurs

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Murthwaite, I thought it right to add that I had heard of the little boy, and the drop of ink, and the rest of it, and that any explanation based on the theory of clairvoyance was an explanation which would carry no conviction whatever with it, to MY mind.
In a word, that accumulated knowledge which man inherits by means of books, imparted and transmitted information, schools, colleges, and universities, we obtain through more subtle agencies that are incorporated with our organic construction, and which form a species of hereditary mesmerism; a vegetable clairvoyance that enables us to see with the eyes, hear with the ears, and digest with the understandings of our predecessors.
She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped, for the flurry of war was over.
 
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