Definition of "clairvoyance" [clair•voy•ance]

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

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• "I understood her to refer to what we call clairvoyance, when the person entranced reveals secret or distant things to the entrancer."
• "Therefore I would claim for the Society its place as a seeker after new knowledge, investigation by what we call clairvoyance, the definite and regular carrying out of the third object, which has been far too much neglected of late years; practically, where many years ago the Society was leading the way in the investigation of the hidden laws in Nature and the hidden powers in man, it now has to take a back seat with regard to the contributions it is making under that particular object for which amongst others it was founded."
• "The only advantage of clairvoyance is that it give the writer an easy way to fill plot holes without wasting too much time on the character."