Second Sight (Noun)
Meaning
Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- According to family legend, Great Aunt Edith had second sight, claiming to see ghostly apparitions wandering the Scottish moors.
- She had an unsettling reputation for second sight, which sometimes seemed more like intuition, but at other times bordered on clairvoyance.
- He boasted about his alleged second sight, claiming to foresee calamities that always seemed to materialize at inopportune moments.
- Their ancestor's purported gift of second sight was believed to be tied to her abnormally intense mystical connection with nature.
- With claims of possessing second sight, she sold tickets to crowds hoping to hear about events she said had not yet transpired but were on the verge of occurring.