Clairvoyance vs. Fey — What's the Difference?

Clairvoyance (; from French clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "vision") is the claimed ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception. Any person who is claimed to have such ability is said accordingly to be a clairvoyant () ("one who sees clearly").

Overrefined, exaggerated, or affected

The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.

Effeminate

Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness.

Having or displaying an otherworldly, magical, or fairylike aspect or quality

(parapsychology) The power to see the future.

Having visionary power; clairvoyant.

Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness; sagacity.

Appearing touched or crazy, as if under a spell.

A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discerning objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Fated to die soon.

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

Full of the sense of approaching death.

About to die; doomed; on the verge of sudden or violent death.

(obsolete) Dying; dead.

Possessing second sight, clairvoyance, or clairaudience.

Overrefined, affected.

Strange or otherworldly.

Spellbound.

Magical or fairylike.

Fairy folk collectively.

Fated; doomed.

Faith.

To cleanse; to clean out.

Slightly insane

Suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness;