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Clairvoyance vs Foreshadow - What's the difference?

clairvoyance | foreshadow |

As a noun clairvoyance

is (parapsychology) the power to see the future.

As a verb foreshadow is

to presage, or suggest something in advance.

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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    foreshadow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To presage, or suggest something in advance.
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
    • It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.