English
Etymology
Borrowed from French clairvoyance.
Pronunciation
Noun
clairvoyance (usually uncountable, plural clairvoyances)
- (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.
- Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness; sagacity.
Hyponyms
Translations
the power to perceive objects that are not accessible to the senses
- Bulgarian: яснови́дство n (jasnovídstvo)
- Catalan: clarividència (ca) f (hispanism), clarveiença f (restorationist)
- 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
- Hindi: पेशनीगोई (peśnīgoī), दिव्यदृष्टि (hi) (divyadŕṣṭi), दिव्यज्ञान (divyajñān), परोक्षदर्शन (parokṣadarśan)
- 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 (oc) 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
- Latin: 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
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From clair + voyance, from roots indicating clearsightedness and extended figuratively to precognition; compare also clairvoyant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɛʁ.vwa.jɑ̃s/
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun
clairvoyance f (plural clairvoyances)
- clairvoyance
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