clairvoyance
千里眼
解説 Definition
超自然的な力で未来や遠くの出来事を見通す能力。透視や千里眼。
Clairvoyance is the supposed ability to know or see things that cannot be known through normal senses. It is often discussed in connection with fortune-telling, spiritual ideas, or the supernatural. The word is usually used in a mysterious or doubtful context.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
覚えるコツは、clear, clarify, crystal clear の「はっきり」と、vision, visible, preview の「見る」を頭の中で重ねること。スペルの clair- は clear に近く、-voy- は view/vision 系を連想すると、「遠くや未来まで、くっきり見通す力」と一本で覚えやすい。単なる prediction や guess ではなく、超自然的に“見えてしまう”感じが核。名詞なので have clairvoyance, claim clairvoyance のように使うと定着する。
Break it into two memory parts: `clair-` sounds like clear, and `-voy-` can remind you of view or vision. That gives the image of seeing clearly beyond normal limits. It feels more supernatural than guess or prediction, so think of someone who claims clairvoyance.
例文
The fortune teller claimed to possess clairvoyance and could see events before they occurred.
その占い師は千里眼の能力を持ち、出来事が起こる前に見えると主張した。
Some people believe that clairvoyance can be developed through years of meditation practice.
千里眼は長年の瞑想の実践によって開発できると信じる人もいる。
Her seemingly uncanny ability to predict market trends was jokingly called financial clairvoyance.
市場の動向を予測する彼女の不思議な能力は、冗談で金融の千里眼と呼ばれた。
clairvoyance の類義語・関連語
clairvoyance の語源・成り立ち Etymology
clairvoyance はフランス語 clairvoyance に由来し、clair「明るい」+ voyant「見ている」から成ります。voir はラテン語 videre にさかのぼり、vision や revise も同根です。つまり「はっきり見る」が、未来や本質を見抜く千里眼へ広がった語です。
Clairvoyance came into English from French clairvoyance, from clair "clear" and voyant "seeing." The seeing part is related to French voir, from Latin videre, "to see," which also gave English words like vision and revise. The original idea was simply "clear seeing," and it later widened to mean seeing what is hidden, distant, or still to come.
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