clairvoyant
noun
[ klɛːˈvɔɪənt ]
• a person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.
• "she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well"
Similar:
psychic,
fortune teller,
forecaster of the future,
crystal gazer,
prophet,
seer,
soothsayer,
oracle,
medium,
spiritualist,
telepathist,
telepath,
mind reader,
palmist,
palm reader,
chiromancer,
chirosophist,
spiritist,
palmister,
clairvoyant
adjective
• having or exhibiting clairvoyance.
• "he didn't tell me about it and I'm not clairvoyant"
Origin:
late 17th century (in the sense ‘clear-sighted, perceptive’): from French, from clair ‘clear’ + voyant ‘seeing’ (from voir ‘to see’). The current sense dates from the mid 19th century.
