clairvoyance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French clairvoyance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɛɹˈvɔɪəns/
• 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
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 透視／透视 (zh) (tòushì), 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)
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• 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
• 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.