second sight

noun

An additional sense beyond the five normal ones; the ability to see things that are not detectable by normal sight; clairvoyance; extrasensory perception.

“I think she must have the second sight, because she always knows where I've been.”

Meanings

nounsecond sight (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn additional sense beyond the five normal ones; the ability to see things that are not detectable by normal sight; clairvoyance; extrasensory perception.

    I think she must have the second sight, because she always knows where I've been.

    5 more examples

    He was seized on the sudden with a fit of second-sight.

    1716 April 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 27. Thursday, March 23. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC

    Nor less avail'd his optic sleight, / And Scottish gift of second-sight

    1782, John Trumbull, McFingal

    These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.

    1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46

    I have noticed that such presentiments occur often in men of my peculiar temperament, and that they are not uncommonly fulfilled. There is a theory that it arises from a species of second-sight, a subtle spiritual communication with the future.

    1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, “That Little Square Box”, in The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales

    I had long had a secret belief that she was gifted, to some degree at any rate, with Second Sight, which quality, or whatever it is, skilled in the powers if not the lore of superstition, manages to keep at stretch not only the mind of its immediate pathic, but of others relevant to it.

    1909, Bram Stoker, The Lady of the Shroud
  2. uncountableSynonym of senopia.

    Synonyms: senopia

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of senopia.

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More synonyms by meaning

nounapparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses

Broader
psychic phenomenapsychic phenomenonparapsychology

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian ясновидство
  • ясновидство (jasnovidstvo)ESP, clairvoyance
Czech šestý smysl
  • šestý smyslESP, clairvoyance
German Zweites Gesicht, sechster Sinn
  • Zweites GesichtESP, clairvoyance
  • sechster SinnESP, clairvoyance
Polish szósty zmysł
  • szósty zmysłESP, clairvoyance
Portuguese clarividência
  • clarividênciaESP, clairvoyance
Scottish Gaelic dà-fhradharc, taibhsearachd
  • dà-fhradharcESP, clairvoyance
  • taibhsearachdESP, clairvoyance
  • dà-shealladhESP, clairvoyance
Turkish altıncı his
  • altıncı hisESP, clairvoyance
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