Prevision
[,pri:'viʒәn]
Definition
(noun.) a prophetic vision (as in a dream).
(noun.) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing.
Edited by Fred--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Foresight, foreknowledge, prescience.
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Examples
- Prevision of change is not part of its scope, for habit assumes the essential likeness of the new situation with the old. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The prevision of a coming disappointment was impressing itself on their minds as well as on mine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He would be miserable, if he had to give up his work, said Dorothea, with a quick prevision of that wretchedness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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