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Someone who claims to see the future, yet never calls their own ending.
means A person claiming the power to perceive things beyond normal senses — hidden objects, distant events, or what's to come.
from Straight out of French: 'clair' (clear) plus 'voyant' (seeing), from the verb 'voir,' to see — so literally 'clear-seeing.' The term rose in the 19th century alongside the vogue for mesmerism and spiritualist séances, when claims of second sight needed a respectable-sounding French label to match the parlor-room mysticism of the age.
- etymology
- French for clear seeing, invented long before refunds existed
- hotline era
- 1-900 psychic lines made millions in the 1990s
- testable claim
- no clairvoyant has ever won a controlled prediction trial
- irony
- rarely predicts the exact moment skeptics show up