Clairvoyant

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clairvoyant \Clair*voy"ant\, a. [F., fr. clair clear + voyant,
     p. pr. of voir to see. See {Clear}, and {Vision}.]
     Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a
     mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clairvoyant \Clair*voy"ant\ n.
     One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects
     not present to the senses.
     [1913 Webster] Clake

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clairvoyant
       adj 1: perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
       2: foreseeing the future [syn: {precognitive}, {second-sighted}]
       n : someone who has the power of clairvoyance

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "clairvoyant":
     anticipant, anticipatory, automatist, clairaudient, clairsentient,
     divinatory, extrasensory, farseeing, farsighted, feeling,
     forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forethoughted,
     forethoughtful, intuitional, intuitive, longsighted, mediumistic,
     precognitive, precognizant, prepared, prescient, pretersensual,
     provident, providential, prudent, psychic, psychokinetic,
     psychometer, psychometrist, psychosensory, ready, sagacious,
     second-sighted, sensing, spiritual, spiritualistic, supersensible,
     supersensual, telekinetic, telepathic
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CLAIRVOYANT, n.  A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of
  seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a
  blockhead.