prevision
Noun: 1. The act of predicting or foreseeing future events: The cognitive process of forming a judgment about what will happen in the future, often based on reasoning, intuition, or special insight. 2. Knowledge of something before it happens; foreknowledge: The state of being aware of a future event in advance. 3. The power or ability to foresee the future: A capacity for anticipating what is to come. 4. A prophetic vision or dream: A vivid mental image or revelation of a future event, often received in a dream or trance-like state.
General Use (Act of Predicting):
- Her accurate prevision of the market crash saved the company from significant losses.
- The report was based on careful analysis and prevision, not just guesswork.
Use (Foreknowledge):
- He claimed to have had a prevision of the accident moments before it occurred.
- The novel's plot hinges on the protagonist's mysterious prevision of coming events.
Use (Prophetic Vision):
- The saint described a prevision in which she saw the city's destruction.
- His disturbing prevision came to him in a dream.
- In Formal or Literary Contexts: "Prevision" is a more formal or literary synonym for "foresight" or "foreknowledge." It often carries a connotation of intellectual or mystical insight.
- The strategist's prevision was uncanny; every one of his scenarios unfolded as described.
- In Psychological or Parapsychological Contexts: The term can be used to discuss purported psychic abilities.
- The study aimed to test the subject's claimed powers of prevision.
- Previsionary (adjective): Of or relating to prevision; having foresight.
- His previsionary statements were later verified by history.
- Previsional (adjective): Another adjective form meaning involving or based on prevision.
- They made previsional arrangements based on the forecast.
- Foresight: The ability to predict or the action of predicting what will happen or be needed in the future.
- Foreknowledge: Awareness of something before it happens or exists.
- Prescience: The fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge.
- Prophecy: A prediction of what will happen in the future.
- Anticipation: The action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction.
- Hindsight: Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened.
- Retrospection: The action of looking back on or reviewing past events or situations.
- Surprise: An unexpected or astonishing event, fact, or thing.
(Note: "Prevision" itself is not commonly used in standard English idioms. The concept is more frequently expressed by its synonyms.) - A glimpse/vision of the future: A phrase describing a moment of foresight or prevision. - The inventor's sketchpad offered a glimpse of the future. - To see it coming: An informal idiom meaning to have anticipated an event. - Given the economic indicators, many analysts saw it coming.
- the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
- seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
- the power to foresee the future
- a prophetic vision (as in a dream)