clairvoyant
Other forms: clairvoyants; clairvoyantly
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A clairvoyant individual is believed to possess psychic abilities or a higher level of insight than other humans who can only use the regular old five senses. Through dreams, visions, Ouija boards and crystal balls, they can see what happens in the future. But before 1851, clairvoyant didn't have the same mystical meaning that it does today — it merely meant a “clear-sighted person.”
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someone who has the power of clairvoyancetype of:psychica person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
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perceiving things beyond the natural range of the sensessynonyms: psychic
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foreseeing the futuresynonyms: precognitive, second-sighted
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