clairvoyance

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As in a kind of clairvoyance, the engineer seemed to know there would be respite until night.

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  1. noun The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.
  2. noun Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness.

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  • I rather suspect that this clairvoyance is more common than its possessors now acknowledge, in which case I want to take this opportunity to tell all espers to come forward. —  Analog October 1971
  • I can't think of any book which gives you the feel of telepathy, clairvoyance, and the other psi phenomena so well, but that's not a very original observation, since Fritz Leiber, Samuel Delany and Robert Silverberg say the same thing on the cover. —  Analog February, 1971
  • He speaks of mesmerism and clairvoyance, and derides the thought of a Saint's being illuminated with radiant light, or exhaling a fragrant odour; you ask him how he explains away the transfiguration of Jesus. —  The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others
  • Based on that moment of clairvoyance, heres few columns / headlines that you can expect, especially now that the Olympic gold medal question has bitten the dust: —  interim thoughts...
  • In this case the iPhone would extend the mind all the way to clairvoyance, and allow you to predict that people you have never seen before will soon appear in the restaurant! —  fragments of consciousness
 

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/klɛrˈvɔɪəns/
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