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Definition: Second Sight |
Second SightNoun1. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Second Sight The power of seeing things invisible to others; the power of foreseeing future events by means of shadows thrown before them. Many Highlanders claim this power, which the ancient Gaels called shadow-sight (taischitaraugh). "Nor less a vailed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second sight." Trumbull. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: Second SightSynonyms: clairvoyance (n), extrasensory perception (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Foresight | Foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment; second sight; sagacity; (intelligence); antepast, prelibation, prophasis. |
Sorcery | Noun: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy; demonology, demonomy, demonship; diablerie, bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism, vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force; electrobiology, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning. |
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Crosswords: Second Sight |
| English words defined with "second sight": Deuteroscopy. (references) |
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Lyrics | Only while we're dancing in the light, of your second sight (I Don't Want Your Love; performing artist: Duran Duran) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love at Second Sight (1934) Second Sight (1916) Aaron Siskind: Second Sight (1981) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The second sight of vision is a reality, it was palpable, it was the writing restored by the mirror. |
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Expressions using "second sight": gift of second sight ♦ gifted with second sight. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
second sight | 41 |
grade second sight words | 12 |
m1100 second sight | 3 |
llc second sight | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "second sight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فكرة ثانية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ясновидство (clairvoyance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jasnozření. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | seconde vue. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jóstehetség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | chiaroveggenza (clairvoyance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ashlins (apparition, phantasm), aahilley (clairvoyant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | econdsay ightsay ясновидение (clairvoyance). (various references) taibhsear (one having second sight, seer). (various references) clarividencia (afterlight, clairvoyance, clear-sightedness, farsightedness, thoughtfulness, vision). (various references) siargåva, fjärrskådande (clairvoyance, far-seeing, second-sighted). (various references) kehanet (augury, denouncement, divination, omen, oracle, oracular, portent, prediction, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, Sibylline, soothsaying, vaticination), geleceği görme yeteneği, gaipten haber verme (foretelling, soothsaying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-h-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: codesigns, consisted, cosseting, dishonest, hedonists, histogens, stonished. | |
-3 letters: cestoids, chintses, codesign, cognised, cognises, congests, cosigned, escoting, etchings, gnostics, hedonics, hedonist, histogen, histones, sections, snitched, snitches. | |
-4 letters: cessing, cession, cestoid, chigoes, chitons, codeins, coedits, cognise, coigned, coignes, congest, consist, coshing, cosiest, cosigns, cosines, costing, ctenoid, deontic, designs, digests, dingoes, dissect, dissent, ditches, docents, dossing. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-h-i-n-o-s-s-t" | |
+4 letters: countershadings. | |
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