clairvoyance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French clairvoyance.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /klɛɹˈvɔɪəns/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /klɛəˈvɔɪəns/
Audio (Canada) (file)

Noun

clairvoyance (usually uncountable, plural clairvoyances)

(parapsychology) The power to see the future.

Hyponyms

Related terms

clairvoyant

Translations

the power to perceive objects that are not accessible to the senses

Bulgarian: ясновидство n (jasnovídstvo)
Catalan: clarividència (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 透視 (zh), 透视 (zh) (tòushì), 千里眼 (zh) (qiānlǐyǎn)
Czech: jasnovidnost f, jasnovidectví (cs) n
Danish: clairvoyance 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
Hungarian: látnoki képesség, éleslátás (hu)
Icelandic: skyggnigáfa
Indonesian: kewaskitaan (id)
Italian: chiaroveggenza (it) f
Japanese: 透視 (ja) (とうし, tōshi)

Latvian: gaišredzība, tālredzība
Lithuanian: aiškiaregystė, įžvalgumas, įžvalga
Macedonian: видовитост f (vidóvitost), јасновидност f (jasnovídnost)
Norwegian: klarsynthet
Occitan: clarvesença f
Polish: jasnowidzenie 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

Roman: pronicljivost (sh), vidovitost (sh)
Spanish: clarividencia
Swedish: klärvoajans (sv), synskhet (sv) c
Turkish: sağgörü (tr), basiret (tr), durugörü
Ukrainian: ясновидіння (uk) n (jasnovýdinnja)
Volapük: kleililogam

See also

Anagrams

ovarian cycle

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /klɛʁvwajɑ̃s/
Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

clairvoyance f (plural clairvoyances)

clairvoyance

Further reading

“clairvoyance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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