Second-sight

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

  Second-sight \Sec"ond-sight`\, n.
     The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical
     eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a
     disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
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           He was seized with a fit of second-sight. --Addison.
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           Nor less availed his optic sleight,
           And Scottish gift of second-sight.       --Trumbull.
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