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Definition of clairvoyant in English: clairvoyantnoun klɛːˈvɔɪəntˌklɛrˈvɔɪənt A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well Example sentencesExamples - Valda told us that only clairvoyants could see her.
- On the other hand, many other commentators disagree, and none of us are clairvoyants.
- These are our visionaries, spiritualists, clairvoyants and psychics.
- Learned men from all fields of science, as well as spiritualists, clairvoyants and cranks, have studied the remains to try uncover the secrets of the past.
- His reputation as a clairvoyant was due in large part to his ability to locate lost animals.
- He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
- During the two weeks of special events, clairvoyants, psychics and other special guests from across the country will be visiting the Heber Street church.
- It was true some clairvoyants might be simply tricksters, but that had not been his position and he was sure ‘the whole phenomenon cannot be accounted for on natural grounds’.
- Many people believe in fortune tellers and clairvoyants and all that jazz, but me, I'm just not sure.
- Clacton police have received five reports from elderly people in the area who have received the disturbing letters, which claim to be from clairvoyants and demand money.
- I am not a fortune teller, but a true clairvoyant, I will help you to find your direction in a way that will leave you empowered and positive.
- As part of my research I met psychics, mediums and clairvoyants, and just got them to tell me about their lives.
- Tom said he knew as a small boy that he had a special gift as a when visions came to him and he now practices as a natural healer, a medium and a clairvoyant.
- The reasons for this become clear once the techniques of social and psychological manipulation used by clairvoyants are understood.
- Are fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, palm readers, spiritists and voodoo participants in league with demons?
- Throughout Europe and North America during the second half of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, numerous people advertised their services as clairvoyants and spirit mediums.
- During my worst periods I became involved with clairvoyants and Ouija boards so I used to get demonic visitations.
- He explained what we as skeptics already know: that there is no evidence that clairvoyants have special powers, and that it is questionable that the police even trust what these psychics are saying.
- A psychic researcher and a clairvoyant, he disclosed his findings this week.
- Consider the Victorian era: mediums and clairvoyants flourished among British and American upper and middle class adults.
Synonyms psychic, fortune teller, forecaster of the future, crystal gazer, prophet, seer, soothsayer, oracle medium, spiritualist telepathist, telepath, mind reader palmist, palm reader, chiromancer rare chirosophist, spiritist, palmister
adjective klɛːˈvɔɪəntˌklɛrˈvɔɪənt Having or exhibiting clairvoyance. he didn't tell me about it and I'm not clairvoyant Example sentencesExamples - And Justine isn't he only one with paranormal gifts - as Dawn reveals, she may also have some clairvoyant tendencies.
- The prophetic or clairvoyant dream is perhaps the strongest reason for believing that dreaming is a gateway to another world.
- I am very clairvoyant so at a touch I can either understand or feel an emotion.
- In some cases their clairvoyant powers were employed by chiefs for advice and prophesy.
- When I give clairvoyant readings, I let the words come out as a flow, while double-checking with my gut intuition.
- Certain individuals are gifted with clairvoyant dreams which they can use as means of predicting the out-come of future events.
- In the story, clairvoyant dreams presage a family's gruesome end.
- Ghost-finding equipment and images will be on display and she will be demonstrating her clairvoyant skills on the audience from 8pm.
- If so, the clairvoyant quality of these last works, their vision and authority, reflects the fate of a man who knew himself to be doomed.
- It is interesting that clairvoyant experiences were among the least reported.
- She certainly claimed to have paranormal experiences, but whether she really believed she was clairvoyant or possessed psychic powers, I can't say.
- She believes everyone has a degree of clairvoyant intuition, often dismissed as déjà vu, but that really skilled clairvoyants are able to go deeper and become completely enveloped in the spirit world.
- Moreover, he claimed that the principles of biodynamics could be understood by people of normal intelligence without using clairvoyant techniques.
- Thus there is a suggestion that clairvoyant imagery tends to be unrelated to ongoing thought processes and is particularly involuntary and spontaneous.
- Their location was not a secret to those with clairvoyant powers.
- Both errors are common occurrences regarding so-called clairvoyant dreams.
- Now imagine that one of these individuals knows all about the counter-evidence and is thus sceptical about the existence of clairvoyant powers.
- Tickets for the clairvoyant evening are £4 in advance and and £5 on the night.
- In her defiant assertion, ‘it is a true thing’, Charlotte Brontë was probably thinking of two specific authorities on the subject of mesmerism and clairvoyant communication.
- Samantha does in fact have completely reliable clairvoyant power, and her belief about the President did result from the operation of that power.
Synonyms psychic, with second sight, with a sixth sense, prophetic, visionary, oracular telepathic, extrasensory rare second-sighted
Derivatives adverb ‘I think he's very gifted clairvoyantly,’ she says in her high, quickly-spoken voice. Example sentencesExamples - Some intuitive people see clairvoyantly, others hear, feel, sense or even smell or taste.
- There are people who went to various camps or events where he was and they said clairvoyantly they saw this great being overshadowing him.
- The participant could know clairvoyantly which which card would later be selected.
- An interesting feature of this chapter is a description of two apparently unpublished studies of his ability to diagnose clairvoyantly.
Origin Late 17th century (in the sense 'clear-sighted, perceptive'): from French, from clair 'clear' + voyant 'seeing' (from voir 'to see'). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century. This was first recorded as meaning ‘clear-sighted, perceptive’, adopted from French clair ‘clear’ and voyant ‘seeing’ (from voir ‘to see’). The sense of someone with the ability to perceive events in the future dates from the mid 19th century.
Definition of clairvoyant in US English: clairvoyantnounˌklerˈvoiəntˌklɛrˈvɔɪənt A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. Example sentencesExamples - He explained what we as skeptics already know: that there is no evidence that clairvoyants have special powers, and that it is questionable that the police even trust what these psychics are saying.
- Valda told us that only clairvoyants could see her.
- I am not a fortune teller, but a true clairvoyant, I will help you to find your direction in a way that will leave you empowered and positive.
- Learned men from all fields of science, as well as spiritualists, clairvoyants and cranks, have studied the remains to try uncover the secrets of the past.
- Clacton police have received five reports from elderly people in the area who have received the disturbing letters, which claim to be from clairvoyants and demand money.
- Many people believe in fortune tellers and clairvoyants and all that jazz, but me, I'm just not sure.
- Are fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, palm readers, spiritists and voodoo participants in league with demons?
- A psychic researcher and a clairvoyant, he disclosed his findings this week.
- During my worst periods I became involved with clairvoyants and Ouija boards so I used to get demonic visitations.
- Tom said he knew as a small boy that he had a special gift as a when visions came to him and he now practices as a natural healer, a medium and a clairvoyant.
- As part of my research I met psychics, mediums and clairvoyants, and just got them to tell me about their lives.
- During the two weeks of special events, clairvoyants, psychics and other special guests from across the country will be visiting the Heber Street church.
- Consider the Victorian era: mediums and clairvoyants flourished among British and American upper and middle class adults.
- Throughout Europe and North America during the second half of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, numerous people advertised their services as clairvoyants and spirit mediums.
- It was true some clairvoyants might be simply tricksters, but that had not been his position and he was sure ‘the whole phenomenon cannot be accounted for on natural grounds’.
- His reputation as a clairvoyant was due in large part to his ability to locate lost animals.
- The reasons for this become clear once the techniques of social and psychological manipulation used by clairvoyants are understood.
- These are our visionaries, spiritualists, clairvoyants and psychics.
- On the other hand, many other commentators disagree, and none of us are clairvoyants.
- He was often accused of political intractability, a lack of imperativeness, too great a readiness to take clairvoyants seriously, and excessive slyness.
Synonyms psychic, fortune teller, forecaster of the future, crystal gazer, prophet, seer, soothsayer, oracle
adjectiveˌklerˈvoiəntˌklɛrˈvɔɪənt Having or exhibiting an ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. he didn't tell me about it and I'm not clairvoyant Example sentencesExamples - When I give clairvoyant readings, I let the words come out as a flow, while double-checking with my gut intuition.
- Samantha does in fact have completely reliable clairvoyant power, and her belief about the President did result from the operation of that power.
- And Justine isn't he only one with paranormal gifts - as Dawn reveals, she may also have some clairvoyant tendencies.
- The prophetic or clairvoyant dream is perhaps the strongest reason for believing that dreaming is a gateway to another world.
- Moreover, he claimed that the principles of biodynamics could be understood by people of normal intelligence without using clairvoyant techniques.
- If so, the clairvoyant quality of these last works, their vision and authority, reflects the fate of a man who knew himself to be doomed.
- Now imagine that one of these individuals knows all about the counter-evidence and is thus sceptical about the existence of clairvoyant powers.
- In the story, clairvoyant dreams presage a family's gruesome end.
- Ghost-finding equipment and images will be on display and she will be demonstrating her clairvoyant skills on the audience from 8pm.
- Thus there is a suggestion that clairvoyant imagery tends to be unrelated to ongoing thought processes and is particularly involuntary and spontaneous.
- Certain individuals are gifted with clairvoyant dreams which they can use as means of predicting the out-come of future events.
- I am very clairvoyant so at a touch I can either understand or feel an emotion.
- Their location was not a secret to those with clairvoyant powers.
- She certainly claimed to have paranormal experiences, but whether she really believed she was clairvoyant or possessed psychic powers, I can't say.
- Both errors are common occurrences regarding so-called clairvoyant dreams.
- She believes everyone has a degree of clairvoyant intuition, often dismissed as déjà vu, but that really skilled clairvoyants are able to go deeper and become completely enveloped in the spirit world.
- Tickets for the clairvoyant evening are £4 in advance and and £5 on the night.
- In some cases their clairvoyant powers were employed by chiefs for advice and prophesy.
- It is interesting that clairvoyant experiences were among the least reported.
- In her defiant assertion, ‘it is a true thing’, Charlotte Brontë was probably thinking of two specific authorities on the subject of mesmerism and clairvoyant communication.
Synonyms psychic, with second sight, with a sixth sense, prophetic, visionary, oracular
Origin Late 17th century (in the sense ‘clear-sighted, perceptive’): from French, from clair ‘clear’ + voyant ‘seeing’ (from voir ‘to see’). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century. |