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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a prophetic vision (as in a dream);

2. the power to foresee the future;
[syn: prescience, prevision]

3. seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing;
[syn: prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience]

4. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future);
[syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prevision \Pre*vi"sion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vision.] Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. --H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prevision n 1: a prophetic vision (as in a dream) 2: the power to foresee the future [syn: prescience, prevision] 3: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience] 4: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision]