clairvoyance

clairvoyance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French clairvoyance.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /klɛɹˈvɔɪəns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /klɛəˈvɔɪəns/

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Noun

clairvoyance (usually uncountable, plural clairvoyances)

1. (parapsychology) The power to see the future.

Hyponyms

• clairaudience
• metagnomy
• precognition
• psychometry
• second sight

Related terms

• clairvoyant

Translations

the power to perceive objects that are not accessible to the senses

Bulgarian: яснови́дство n (jasnovídstvo) Catalan: clarividència (ca) f Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏪᎯ (adawehi) Chinese: Mandarin: 透視／透视 (zh) (tòushì), 千里眼 (zh) (qiānlǐyǎn) Czech: jasnovidnost f, jasnovidectví (cs) n Danish: clairvoyance c, klarsyn n, synskhed c Dutch: helderziendheid (nl) f Esperanto: klarvideco Estonian: selgeltnägemine Finnish: selvänäköisyys (fi) French: clairvoyance (fr) f Georgian: გულთმისნობა (gultmisnoba), ნათელმხილველობა (natelmxilveloba) German: Hellsehen n, Hellseherei (de) f Hungarian: látnoki képesség, éleslátás (hu) Icelandic: skyggnigáfa Indonesian: kewaskitaan (id) Italian: chiaroveggenza (it) f Japanese: 透視 (ja) (とうし, tōshi), 千里眼 (ja) (せんりがん, senrigan) Latvian: gaišredzība, tālredzība Lithuanian: aiškiaregystė, įžvalgumas, įžvalga Macedonian: видовитост f (vidovitost), јасновидност f (jasnovidnost) Norwegian: klarsynthet Occitan: clarvesença f Polish: jasnowidzenie (pl) n, jasnowidztwo n Portuguese: clarividência (pt) Romanian: clarviziune (ro) Russian: яснови́дение (ru) n (jasnovídenije) Scottish Gaelic: taibhsearachd f, dà-fhradharc m, dà-shealladh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: видовитост Roman: pronicljivost (sh), vidovitost (sh) Spanish: clarividencia (es) Swedish: klärvoajans (sv), synskhet (sv) c Turkish: sağgörü (tr), basiret (tr), durugörü Ukrainian: яснови́діння (uk) n (jasnovýdinnja) Volapük: kleililogam

See also

• claircognizance
• clairsentience

Anagrams

• ovarian cycle

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɛʁ.vwa.jɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

clairvoyance f (plural clairvoyances)

1. clairvoyance

Further reading

• “clairvoyance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.