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second sight

second sight noun: an additional sense beyond the five normal ones; the ability to see things that are not detectable by normal sight; clairvoyance; extrasensory perception.

Noun

second sight (uncountable)

  1. An additional sense beyond the five normal ones; the ability to see things that are not detectable by normal sight; clairvoyance; extrasensory perception.
    • I think she must have the second sight, because she always knows where I've been.
    • He was seized on the sudden with a fit of second-sight.1716 April 2 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 27. Thursday, March 23. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob...
  2. Synonym of senopia.
    Synonyms:
    senopia

second sight meaning in Telugu

second sight in Telugu

second sight, supernatural intelligence
దివ్యదృష్టి divyadr̥ṣṭi

Examples of second sight in a sentence

  • These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46:
  • The fact is I know quite a lot about palmistry and second sight."1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CIV, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

Synonyms of second sight

Questions about second sight

What does second sight mean?
Second sight means an additional sense beyond the five normal ones; the ability to see things that are not detectable by normal sight; clairvoyance; extrasensory perception.
What is second sight in Telugu?
Second sight in Telugu is దివ్యదృష్టి (divyadr̥ṣṭi). See Second sight meaning in Telugu.
How do you use second sight in a sentence?
These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.
What part of speech is second sight?
Second sight is a noun.

Words near second sight in the dictionary

  1. second sessions
  2. second sheet
  3. second sheets
  4. second shift
  5. second shifts
  6. second sight
  7. second skin
  8. second sleep
  9. second sleeps
  10. second slip
  11. second slips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: second sight (page history and authors); దివ్యదృష్టి (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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