different between clairvoyance vs prophecy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French clairvoyance.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kl???v???ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl???v???ns/

Noun

clairvoyance (usually uncountable, plural clairvoyances)

1. (parapsychology) The power to see the future.

Hyponyms

• clairaudience
• metagnomy
• precognition
• psychometry
• second sight

Related terms

• clairvoyant

Translations

See also

• claircognizance
• clairsentience

Anagrams

• ovarian cycle

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??.vwa.j??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

clairvoyance f (plural clairvoyances)

1. clairvoyance

Further reading

• “clairvoyance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin proph?t?a, from Ancient Greek ????????? (proph?teía, “prophecy”), from ???????? (proph?t?s, “speaker of a god”), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ???? (ph?mí, “I tell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??f.?.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??f?si/

Noun

prophecy (countable and uncountable, plural prophecies)

1. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

   French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.

2. The public interpretation of Scripture.

Derived terms

• self-fulfilling prophecy
• self-defeating prophecy

Related terms

• prophesy
• prophet
• prophetic

Translations

Verb

prophecy (third-person singular simple present prophecies, present participle prophecying, simple past and past participle prophecied)

1. (chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy
   • 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:

     The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.

   • 2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142:

     One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]

   • 2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135:

     The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.

   • 2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85:

     the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

Middle English

Noun

prophecy

1. Alternative form of prophecie