clairvoyant

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who claims to have the ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact

   The clairvoyant predicted the outcome of the election with surprising accuracy.

2. 2
   adj

   having or exhibiting an ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact

   She had a clairvoyant sense that something was about to go wrong.

From French clair ("clear") + voyant ("seeing"), giving clairvoyant ("clear-sighted"); adopted into Modern English meaning "having the ability to perceive events beyond normal sensory contact."

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