| 单词 | clairvoyance |
| 释义 | clairvoyance (once / 6990 pages) n Clairvoyance is a magical kind of intuition. You could attempt to prove your clairvoyance by predicting which team will win the Superbowl. Have you ever heard of the "sixth sense," the mysterious ability to know something that can't be observed? That's clairvoyance. The ability to tell the future, read someone's mind, or communicate with dead people could all be described as clairvoyance. The French prefix clair, or "clear," combined with voir, "to see," gave us the word clairvoyance. WORD FAMILYclairvoyance: clairvoyances+/clairvoyant: clairvoyance, clairvoyantly, clairvoyants USAGE EXAMPLESI considered myself to be a hopeful skeptic, but a neophyte in the worlds of clairvoyance, soothsaying and any medium promising news of the future. New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) The corporate dreams for machine learning, however, aren’t exhausted by the goal of consumer clairvoyance. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) In his 1938 self-portrait "Clairvoyance," a painter looks at an egg as a model, but draws a bird on the canvas. Reuters(Sep 22, 2016) n apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses Syn|Hypo|Hyper E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight foreknowledge, precognition knowledge of an event before it occurs parapsychology, psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes |
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