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   clairvoyant

   /klɛːˈvɔɪənt/

   noun

   • 1. a person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact: "she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well"

   adjective

   • 1. having or exhibiting clairvoyance: "he didn't tell me about it and I'm not clairvoyant"

   Word Origin late 17th century (in the sense ‘clear-sighted, perceptive’): from French, from clair ‘clear’ + voyant ‘seeing’ (from voir ‘to see’). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. clairvoyantly adverb

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