second sight
noun
: the capacity to see remote or future objects or events : clairvoyance, precognition
Examples of second sight in a Sentence
the fairy world was believed to be visible to people blessed with second sight
Recent Examples on the Web
Only one gifted with second sight could have foreseen the sequel-a world depression…
Harold van B. Cleveland and W. H. Bruce Brittain
EssayJuly 1969
The Common Market after De Gaulle
Trouble is no stranger in Brussels.
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Harold Van B. Cleveland, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2023
His great theme is the limits of vision, and the way that these limits, when imaginatively confronted, can serve as the basis for a kind of second sight.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
Call it, then, love at second sight.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Barker contacted Peter Fairley, a journalist and science editor at the Evening Standard, with his hunch that some people may have foreseen the disaster through a kind of second sight.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
Young Juliana Clare is 17, exceptionally pretty and, like Jan, susceptible to moments of hallucinatory second sight.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
It’s also Gretel, who is revealed to possess a sort of second sight, who Holda sees potential in once the siblings find their way to her home (which is made of more traditional materials than gingerbread this time around).
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 31 Jan. 2020
Harold Van B. Cleveland, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2023
His great theme is the limits of vision, and the way that these limits, when imaginatively confronted, can serve as the basis for a kind of second sight.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
Call it, then, love at second sight.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
Barker contacted Peter Fairley, a journalist and science editor at the Evening Standard, with his hunch that some people may have foreseen the disaster through a kind of second sight.
—Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022
Young Juliana Clare is 17, exceptionally pretty and, like Jan, susceptible to moments of hallucinatory second sight.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
It’s also Gretel, who is revealed to possess a sort of second sight, who Holda sees potential in once the siblings find their way to her home (which is made of more traditional materials than gingerbread this time around).
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 31 Jan. 2020
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