seer

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Usually the seer is a person whose ordinary "mental imagery" is particularly vivid.

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  1. noun One that sees: an inveterate seer of sights.
  2. noun A clairvoyant.
  3. noun A prophet.

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bard ·  prophet ·  magician ·  sage ·  healer ·  thinker ·  dreamer ·  mathematician ·  patriot ·  theologian ·  oracle ·  moralist

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  1. Early modern English also sear (with distinctive termination -ar for -er, as in forebear, beggar, etc.); from Middle English seere = Dutch ziener (with irreg. n, from the infinitive) = Middle High German seher (in sternseher, star-gazer), German seher = Danish seer = Swedish siare, a seer, prophet; as see + -er.
  2. Also saer, and more properly ser; from Hindustani ser.
 

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