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Clairvoyance vs Foresee - What's the difference?

clairvoyance | foresee |

As a noun clairvoyance

is (parapsychology) the power to see the future.

As a verb foresee is

to anticipate; to predict.

clairvoyance

English

(wikipedia clairvoyance)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (parapsychology) The power to see the future.

    • Hyponyms

    * clairaudience * metagnomy * precognition * psychometry * second sight

    Related terms

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    foresee

    English

    Verb

  • To anticipate; to predict.
  • * 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
    • "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
    • A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
  • (obsolete) To provide.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs