prevision

plural previsions · alternative prævision

1. countableuncountableAdvance knowledge; foresight.

   The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.

   1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21

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   I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.

   1889, Margaret Oliphant, The Portrait

   it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.

   1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew

2. countableuncountableA prediction.

present singular third person previsions · participle present previsioning · participle past previsioned · past previsioned · alternative prævision

1. To predict or envision the future.