second sight

Other forms: second sights

If you believe in second sight, it means you think that it's possible for people to see into the future. Someone who claims to have second sight might call themselves a clairvoyant and hover over a crystal ball.

If you saw something that was going to happen in the future, and then it actually occurred, you'd have second sight. It's one form of ESP, or extrasensory perception — the ability to see things that ordinary senses don't show. Second sight seems at first to be an odd name, since it means "the sight of events before they occur," — not afterward. Some believe it comes from the idea that physical sight comes first, and second sight develops later.

Definitions of second sight

1. noun

   apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
   synonyms: E.S.P., ESP, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception

   types:

   foreknowledge, precognition

   knowledge of an event before it occurs

   type of:

   parapsychology, psychic phenomena, psychic phenomenon

   phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes