foresense

present singular third person foresenses · participle present foresensing · participle past foresensed · past foresensed

1. To perceive or sense in advance.

   He knows much, but he foresenses more than he chooses to tell."

   2006, Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr

   2 more examples

   How could these publishers foresense (what anyone can now perceive) that to give Dr. Sidis their clients' humorous writings to quote from would be like giving a Gutenburg Bible to the baby?

   1913, Life

   “Hey—” The way animals—men and dogs—foresense a great act of weather is in a sudden confusion of terms, an eerie loss of measurement.

   2013, Hortense Calisher, Mysteries of Motion: A Novel

1. uncountableThe perception of a thing in advance.
2. uncountableThe ability to perceive in advance.

   I said, "I know it's probably strange to have the gift of foresense. Just knowing someone would be great before anyone else does. But you were right."

   2011, Brandon C. Lay, 100 Monologues, Scenes and One Acts

3. uncountableGood or right judgement beforehand.

   The chairman of Vanderbilt's graduate department of religion, H. Jackson Forstman, had accepted Gore into his program with what he later called “the foresense to realize that this young man was going to get involved in a lot of other things […]"

   2000, David Maraniss, Ellen Nakashima, The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore