Definitions for clairvoyance

clairvoyance clair·voy·ance

Spelling: [klair-voi-uh ns]
IPA: /klɛərˈvɔɪ əns/

Clairvoyance is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 1138 anagrams from letters in clairvoyance (aacceilnorvy).

Definitions for clairvoyance

noun

  1. the supernatural power of seeing objects or actions removed in space or time from natural viewing.
  2. quick, intuitive knowledge of things and people; sagacity.

Origin of clairvoyance

1840-50; French, equivalent to clairvoy(ant) clairvoyant + -ance -ance

Examples for clairvoyance

At the first glance he divined my interior trouble, and I hated him for his clairvoyance.

She then experimented to some extent with mesmerism and clairvoyance.

He had recourse to every superstition of sortilege, clairvoyance, presentiment, and dreams.

Why should not the waking soul have also its moments of clairvoyance?

Now, may it not be that this supplies a suggestion as to the cause of the phenomenon of clairvoyance?

But these belong to the subject of apparitions rather than to that of clairvoyance.

However, he avers that the story of clairvoyance was current in the spring of 1429.

clairvoyance, indeed, is a faculty which has no direct moral relations.

By a sort of clairvoyance, Roma could see the Baron in the midst of the scenes he had prearranged.

A clairvoyance, deeper than knowledge, came to Virginia while she looked at her.

Word Value for clairvoyance
Scrable

22

Words with friends

26

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