clairvoyance
Seeing beyond sight
Clairvoyance is the supposed ability to perceive things beyond ordinary senses—seeing distant events, hidden objects, or future occurrences.
Those claiming such powers are clairvoyants.
The word extends to exceptional insight or foresight: Her clairvoyance about market trends made her wealthy.
In this figurative sense, it suggests uncanny perceptiveness rather than supernatural ability.
Middle size or state
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
seer · channeling · seance · remote viewing · mind reading · spiritualism · aura reading · psychometry
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- tarotDivination card set
scrying · fortune telling · prognostication · omen · portent · palmistry · tea leaves · runes
State of awaiting something
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- farsightednessBlurred near vision condition
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
future sight · prophetic · visionary · forethought · forewarning · harbinger · precognitive · glimpse
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
foreknowledge · presentiment · insight · discernment · perception · awareness · flash · inspiration
Pursuit of divine union
- esotericAccessible to few
- arcaneUnderstood by few
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- paranormalBeyond scientific explanation
metaphysical · theosophy · spiritualism · hermetic · cabalistic · hidden knowledge · astral · ethereal
medium
Middle size or state
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
ESP · seer · channeling · seance · remote viewing · mind reading · spiritualism · aura reading · psychometry · second sight
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
tarot · scrying · fortune telling · prognostication · omen · portent · palmistry · tea leaves · runes · I Ching
anticipation
State of awaiting something
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- farsightednessBlurred near vision condition
- predictionForecast of coming events
forecast · future sight · prophetic · visionary · forethought · forewarning · harbinger · precognitive · glimpse · revelation
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
inkling · foreknowledge · presentiment · insight · discernment · perception · awareness · flash · inspiration · intuitiveness
mysticism
Pursuit of divine union
- esotericAccessible to few
- arcaneUnderstood by few
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
paranormal · metaphysical · theosophy · spiritualism · hermetic · cabalistic · hidden knowledge · astral · ethereal · otherworldly
- supernatural statesenchanted, bewitched, hexed, cursed, possessed
- Fringe Sciencecold fusion, perpetual motion, alchemy, astrology, phrenology
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- mythical powersimmortality, shapeshifting, telepathy, teleportation, invisibility
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
clairvoyanceblindness
Absence of vision
obliviousness · myopia · tunnel vision · short-sightedness · shortsightedness
clairvoyanceignorance
Absence of knowledge
unknowing · unawareness · cluelessness · benightedness · incomprehension
clairvoyanceempiricism
Knowledge through observation
skepticism · materialism · rationalism · scientific method · evidence-based reasoning