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单词 second sight
释义

second sight

noun

: the capacity to see remote or future objects or events : clairvoyance, precognition

Synonyms

  • clairvoyance
  • extrasensory perception
  • sixth sense
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Example Sentences

the fairy world was believed to be visible to people blessed with second sight
Recent Examples on the Web Barker contacted Peter Fairley, a journalist and science editor at the Evening Standard, with his hunch that some people may have foreseen the disaster through a kind of second sight. Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 25 Aug. 2022 Young Juliana Clare is 17, exceptionally pretty and, like Jan, susceptible to moments of hallucinatory second sight. Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020 It’s also Gretel, who is revealed to possess a sort of second sight, who Holda sees potential in once the siblings find their way to her home (which is made of more traditional materials than gingerbread this time around). Megan Mccluskey, Time, 31 Jan. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1616, in the meaning defined above

second sight

noun

as in sixth sense
the power of seeing or knowing about things that are not present to the senses the fairy world was believed to be visible to people blessed with second sight

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • sixth sense
  • clairvoyance
  • extrasensory perception
  • foreknowledge
  • telepathy
  • parapsychology
  • foresight
  • precognition
  • prescience
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