precognition

Main Entry:
precognition [pree-kog-nish-uhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: clairvoyance
Synonyms: ESP, acumen, discernment, extra sensory perception, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, fortune-telling, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy
Notes: clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference
Main Entry: extrasensory perception
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: psychic power
Synonyms: ESP, clairvoyance, intuition, intuitionism, intuitivism, keen intuition, precognition, presentiment, psychic powers, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy, vision
Main Entry: forecast
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prediction, often of weather or business
Synonyms: anticipation, augury, budget, calculation, cast, conjecture, divination, estimate, foreknowledge, foreseeing, foresight, foretelling, forethought, foretoken, guess, outlook, planning, precognition, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, projection, prophecy
Main Entry: foresight
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: mental preparedness
Synonyms: anticipation, canniness, care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, clairvoyance, discernment, discreetness, discretion, economy, far-sightedness, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, long-sightedness, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prenotion, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity
Antonyms: hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness
Main Entry: hunch
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feeling, idea
Synonyms: anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought
Antonyms: proof, reality, truth
Main Entry: foreknowledge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: foresight
Synonyms: anticipation, hunch, precognition, premonition, prescience
Main Entry: second sight
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: extrasensory perception
Synonyms: ESP, clairvoyance, feyness, inner sense, insight, lucidity, precognition, prescience, sixth sense, the force, third eye
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Foresight.
Category: 2. To the Future
Synonyms:
-nouns
foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence (preparation)., forethought, forecast; predeliberation, presurmise; foregone conclusion (prejudgment); prudence (caution)., foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment; second sight; sagacity (intelligence); antepast, prelibation, prophasis., prospect (expectation); foretaste; prospectus (plan).
-verbs
foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future., see one's way; see how the land lies, see how the wind blows, see how the cat jumps., anticipate; expect; be beforehand (early); predict; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise; have an eye to the future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem; keep a sharp lookout (vigilance); forewarn.
-adjectives
foreseeing; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious (intelligent); weatherwise; provident (prepared); prospective.
-adverbs
against the time when.
-phrases
cernit omnia Deus vindex; mihi cura futuri.
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