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clairvoyance

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clairvoyance (klâr'voi`əns), alleged power to perceive, as though visually, objects or persons not discernible through the ordinary sense channels. Clairvoyance may occur in a supposedly normal state (second sight) or more generally in a trance induced by various agencies, such as drugs, fasting, illness, or crystal gazing. See spiritism spiritism or spiritualism, belief that the human personality continues to exist after death and can communicate with the living through the agency of a medium or psychic.
..... Click the link for more information.  and parapsychology parapsychology, study of mental phenomena not explainable by accepted principles of science. The organized, scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena began with the foundation (1882) of the Society for Psychical Research in London.
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clairvoyance
the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses
clairvoyance [kler′vȯi·əns]
(psychology)
A form of extrasensory perception in which there is a receiver and an extant event of which he has knowledge that has not been conveyed to him through his sensory channels.
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Murthwaite, I thought it right to add that I had heard of the little boy, and the drop of ink, and the rest of it, and that any explanation based on the theory of clairvoyance was an explanation which would carry no conviction whatever with it, to MY mind.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
In a word, that accumulated knowledge which man inherits by means of books, imparted and transmitted information, schools, colleges, and universities, we obtain through more subtle agencies that are incorporated with our organic construction, and which form a species of hereditary mesmerism; a vegetable clairvoyance that enables us to see with the eyes, hear with the ears, and digest with the understandings of our predecessors.
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped, for the flurry of war was over.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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