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Clairvoyance vs Foresight - What's the difference?

clairvoyance | foresight | Synonyms |

Foresight is a synonym of clairvoyance.



As nouns the difference between clairvoyance and foresight

is that clairvoyance is the power to see the future while foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

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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    foresight

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
    • Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
  • the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
  • (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

    • Synonyms

    * (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

    Antonyms

    * hindsight

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * foresee * backsight

    Anagrams

    * English abstract nouns