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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]