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precognition vs. clairvoyance

precognition

noun

  1. knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  2. Scots Law.
    1. the examination of witnesses and other parties before a trial in order to supply a legal ground for prosecution.
    2. the evidence established in such an examination.

clairvoyance

noun

  1. the supernatural power of seeing objects or actions removed in space or time from natural viewing. Compare clairaudience, clairsentience.
  2. quick, intuitive knowledge of things and people; sagacity.

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