- clairvoyant
- "having psychic gifts," 1847 (in clairvoyance), earlier "having insight" (1671), from Fr. clairvoyant "seeing clearly" (13c.), from source of clair (see clear) + voyant "seeing," prp. of voir, from L. videre "to see" (see vision). The noun is first attested 1851, from the adj.