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prevision
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun prevision has 4 senses
- prevision(n = noun.cognition) Array - a prophetic vision (as in a dream); Array is a kind of vision
- prevision(n = noun.cognition) prescience - the power to foresee the future; Array is a kind of capacity, mental ability
- prevision(n = noun.cognition) farsightedness, foresight, prospicience - seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing; Array is a kind of knowing
- prevision(n = noun.cognition) anticipation, prediction - the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future); Array is a kind of abstract thought, logical thinking, reasoning
Derived form verb previse2
has particulars: projection, prognostication, prophecy, vaticination, adumbration, foreshadowing, prefiguration
CIDE DICTIONARY
prevision, n. [Cf. F. prévision.].
Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
prevision
Foresight
N foresight, prospicience, prevision, long- sightedness, anticipation, providence, forethought, forecast, predeliberation, presurmise, foregone conclusion, prudence, foreknowledge, prognosis, precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment, second sight, sagacity, antepast, prelibation, prophasis, prospect, foretaste, prospectus, foreseeing, prescient, farseeing, farsighted, sagacious, weatherwise, provident, prospective, against the time when, cernit omnia Deus vindex, mihi cura futuri, run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.
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