The claimed supernatural ability to see events, places, or information that are beyond normal sight or hidden from view.
From French clair 'clear' + voyance 'sight' (from voir 'to see,' Latin videre). The term was popularized during the 19th-century spiritualist movement in France and spread throughout the English-speaking world.
The word 'clairvoyance' perfectly captures how spiritualists in the 1800s imagined supernatural powers—by simply combining French words for 'clear' and 'sight,' they created a term that sounds scientific and organized, which helped convince many people of its legitimacy.
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