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Clairvoyant vs Prescience - What's the difference?

clairvoyant | prescience |

As nouns the difference between clairvoyant and prescience

is that clairvoyant is a person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses while prescience is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

As an adjective clairvoyant

is of or relating to clairvoyance.

clairvoyant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to clairvoyance.
  • Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
  • Able to foresee the future.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.
  • A person able to foresee the future.

    • Synonyms

    * (person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses) medium, mystic, seer * (person able to forsee the future) fortune teller

    Anagrams

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    prescience

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
    • God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. (Jonathan Edwards)