Clairvoyant vs. Psychic — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to clairvoyance.

A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws, such as psychokinesis or apportation. Although many people believe in psychic abilities, the scientific consensus is that there is no proof of the existence of such powers, and describes the practice as pseudoscience.

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

A person apparently responsive to psychic forces.

A person, such as a medium, possessing the supposed power of clairvoyance.

See medium.

Of, relating to, or having clairvoyance.

Of, relating to, affecting, or influenced by the human mind or psyche; mental

Able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses.

Capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy.

Able to foresee the future.

Of or relating to such mental processes.

Having great insight; sagacious.

A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.

(computing) Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.

(parapsychology) A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.

A person able to see things that cannot be perceived by the normal senses

(gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).

A person able to foresee the future

Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.

Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.

Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

One who is able, when in a mesmeric state, to discern objects not present to the senses.

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

Someone who has the power of clairvoyance

Of or pertaining to the mind, or its functions and diseases; mental; - contrasted with physical.

Perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses

A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

Foreseeing the future

Pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws;

Affecting or influenced by the human mind;

Outside the sphere of physical science;