as in sixth sense
the power of seeing or knowing about things that are not present to the senses
people who claim to have clairvoyance are sometimes asked to help locate missing persons
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Recent Examples of clairvoyance
With just about 20 days until the presidential election, voters have turned to polls and prediction markets for some clairvoyance on its outcome.
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
At the heart of his own clairvoyance and mediumship was an understanding that God was benevolent — too good to ever create something so awful as hell or eternal damnation.
—Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made By History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
But in that moment, Queen Genevieve was born, a player whose clairvoyance could summon her enemies’ words from the ether.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
Lee Tiger Halley plays his brother Gus, a selective mute with a penchant for occasional clairvoyance.
—Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2024
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Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
At the heart of his own clairvoyance and mediumship was an understanding that God was benevolent — too good to ever create something so awful as hell or eternal damnation.
—Elizabeth Garner Masarik / Made By History, TIME, 16 Oct. 2024
But in that moment, Queen Genevieve was born, a player whose clairvoyance could summon her enemies’ words from the ether.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
Lee Tiger Halley plays his brother Gus, a selective mute with a penchant for occasional clairvoyance.
—Alexandra Koster, refinery29.com, 11 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clairvoyance
Noun
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Trump has a sixth sense for power There’s a push and a pull to power.—
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
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Many of the investigators who left had honed their skills over years of field visits and inspections, developing a sixth sense for possible violations.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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These detector settings allow Alice and Bob to ask the particles different questions; an additional trick to throw off their apparent telepathy.—
Daniel Garisto,
Scientific American,
6 Oct. 2022
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Sterling and Blair’s world — and the logic of their kitschy twin telepathy — is thrown into total chaos.—
Ariana Romero,
refinery29.com,
14 Aug. 2020
Noun
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In episode 6, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) goes to visit the grave of the pop icon’s Rosaline, who is a deceased Nevermore professor known for her second sight, after losing her powers in part one.—
Liza Esquibias,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Cowardly Lion is a member of a half-human, half-animal race enslaved by Azkadellia for their powers of second sight.—
Emma Stefansky,
Vulture,
26 Nov. 2024
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The only other major parapsychology unit in the United States was Princeton’s Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory, or PEAR, which focused on telekinesis and extrasensory perception.—
Saskia Solomon,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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Does a person accept, say, poltergeists, but not extrasensory perception?—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
14 Nov. 2024
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“Clairvoyance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clairvoyance. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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