second sight

as in sixth sense
the power of seeing or knowing about things that are not present to the senses the fairy world was believed to be visible to people blessed with second sight

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Recent Examples on the Web The books follow protagonists who strive to become young artists in a crumbling economy, inherit second sight while spilling with grief, and deal with the reality of our grave present. Zoe Guy, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024 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. 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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“Second sight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/second%20sight. Accessed 11 Nov. 2024.

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