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Answer for the clue "Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses ", 12 letters:
clairvoyance

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Word definitions for clairvoyance in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"paranormal gift of seeing things out of sight," 1837, from special use of French clairvoyance (Old French clerveans , 13c.) "quickness of understanding, sagacity, penetration," from clairvoyant (see clairvoyant ). A secondary sense in French is the main ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clairvoyance is the 1986 debut studio album by the alternative rock band Screaming Trees , produced by Steve Fisk . Released on Velvetone Records , the album helped the band earn a contract with SST Records . While it is very much a combination of psychedelic ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses [syn: second sight , extrasensory perception , E.S.P. , ESP ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clairvoyance \Clair*voy"ance\, n. [F.] A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discerning objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context parapsychology English) The power to see the future.

Usage examples of clairvoyance.

When a sensitive person receives clairvoyance or clairaudience, or anyone has a psychic experience, the consciousness must be unoccupied by physical thought or sensation to permit its reception of the spirit experience.

Rosemary acted as his subject, and she supposedly has astounding abilities in clairvoyance, telepathy and telekinesis.

Aunt Noonan was secretive, hiding her clairvoyance from the people of Apple Springs, uselessly I suspect, although they certainly always knew about me.

An extraordinarily low score reveals your clairvoyance as much as getting every one correct!

Getting the numbers by clairvoyance fast enough to keep the dot steady in the green requires too fine a control for you yet.

Its ill vigorous pulsing whisked away her near-hysteria and left her clairvoyance and telepathy raw, sensitive and all-enveloping.

Her clairvoyance now sensed the disjointed mental activity of his dream state.

I knew my other powers were real and reliable, for numerous people had benefited from my clairvoyance and had been astonished by it.

Concerned about the oncoming violence foreseen in visions, she could not convince herself that the gift of clairvoyance might again help her to save others or that it might, in time, leave her more in control of her destiny than she had ever been before.

The primary question therefore seems to be, can clairvoyance adequately substitute for the routine and legally sufficient visual and aural observations as basis for a sworn statement on which a search warrant may validly issue?

At the trial, New York put Drago on the stand to prove the existence of clairvoyance, and hence that the warrant was validly issued.

In summary, if the rifle was located by clairvoyance, the search may well have been unconstitutional in analogy to wiretapping.

If clairvoyance does not exist, then there was no basis on which a valid warrant could have issued at all.

Psi is easier, and the cops will be welcome to use all the psi technique they can dig up: telepathy, clairvoyance, hexing, prekenners.

She had a license to practice clairvoyance, but not to practice medicine.