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 or perceive things objects or events beyond the natural range of the senses, such as the past or the future.
2. Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness; sagacity.

Hyponyms

• clairaudience
• metagnomy
• precognition
• psychometry
• retrocognition
• 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 (da) 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

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.