tiên giác
Definition
- Noun:
- Prescience: The ability to know or perceive events before they happen; foreknowledge.
- Prophetic insight: A capacity for foreseeing future developments, often attributed to great thinkers or sages.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Nhà lãnh đạo đó có tiên giác về sự thay đổi của thị trường. (That leader had prescience about the market change.)
- Sự tiên giác của ông ấy về công nghệ đã được chứng minh là đúng. (His prophetic insight about technology proved correct.)
Advanced Usage
- "tiên giác" in philosophical context: Refers to a priori knowledge or innate understanding in philosophical discourse.
- Triết gia bàn về khái niệm tiên giác. (The philosopher discussed the concept of a priori knowledge.)
Variants and Related Words
- Giác ngộ (n): enlightenment, spiritual awakening.
- Linh cảm (n): premonition, a feeling about a future event.
- Dự đoán (n/v): prediction, to predict.
Synonyms
- Foresight: The ability to predict or plan for the future.
- Foreknowledge: Knowledge of something before it happens.
- Clairvoyance: The supposed faculty of perceiving things beyond normal sensory contact.
Related Idioms
- Có con mắt tiên giác: To have a prophetic eye; to be exceptionally foresighted.
- Nhà đầu tư thành công nhờ có con mắt tiên giác. (The investor succeeded thanks to having a prophetic eye.)