Both Uses
clairvoyance
in
The Color of Water
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- She sometimes wrapped her head in scarves and worked as a cook and domestic, usually for white people, but beneath her domestic look was an intelligent, clairvoyant woman who understood more about me as a mixed child than I understood about myself.†
Chpt 14 *
- The flashbacks came out of nowhere: a joint or cigarette would set them off, or nothing at all-I'd be walking down the street and suddenly find myself blasted, tripping, that acid clairvoyancy high where people seem to be made of glass and the back of your hand becomes a purple star.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(clairvoyance) to perceive things beyond the natural range of the senses -- especially foreseeing the future
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)