Meaning & use
prevision
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Foreknowledge or foresight of something before it happens.
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The novelist's prevision of technological change proved remarkably accurate.
Ancient oracles claimed a kind of prevision denied to ordinary mortals.
A note on using this word
Built from Latin "prae-" (before) and "videre" (to see), the word literally means "seeing beforehand."
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