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Clairvoyance vs Prophecy - What's the difference?

clairvoyance | prophecy |

Prophecy is a synonym of clairvoyance.



As nouns the difference between clairvoyance and prophecy

is that clairvoyance is the power to see the future while prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

As a verb prophecy is

dated form of lang=en.

clairvoyance

English

(wikipedia clairvoyance)

Noun

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

    • Hyponyms

    * clairaudience * metagnomy * precognition * psychometry * second sight

    Related terms

    *

    prophecy

    English

    (wikipedia prophecy)

    Noun

    (prophecies)
  • A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
    • French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .

    Derived terms

    * self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecy

    Related terms

    * prophesy * prophet * prophetic

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
    • The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
  • * Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge, page 142:
    • One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
  • * 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge, page 135:
    • The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
  • * 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge, page 85:
    • the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);