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noun
Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: parapsychology, pseudoscience
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Synonyms: prescience, foresight, foreknowledge, clairvoyance, premonition, divination, prophecy, psychicness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Scots law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
knowledge of an event before it occurs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: foreknowledge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clairvoyance, second sight, extrasensory perception, E.S.P., ESP
History
Borrowed from Middle French precognition or its source, Latin praecognitio, from praecognōscō (“to know beforehand”). Doublet of Germanic-based foreknowledge and Greek-based prognosis. Equivalent to pre- + cognition.
Across languages
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