noun
1. a prophetic vision (as in a dream) (Freq. 5)
• Hypernyms: ↑vision
2. the power to foresee the future
• Syn: ↑prescience
• Derivationally related forms: ↑prescient (for: ↑prescience)
• Hypernyms: ↑capacity, ↑mental ability
3. seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
• Syn: ↑foresight, ↑farsightedness, ↑prospicience
• Derivationally related forms: ↑prospicient (for: ↑prospicience), ↑farsighted (for: ↑farsightedness), ↑previse
• Hypernyms: ↑knowing
4. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
• Syn: ↑prediction, ↑anticipation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑predict (for: ↑prediction)
• Hypernyms: ↑reasoning, ↑logical thinking, ↑abstract thought
• Hyponyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.