precognition
noun/ˌpɹiːkɒɡˈnɪʃn̩/UK/ˌpɹikɑɡˈnɪʃən/US
Etymology
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.
- borrowed from praecognitio
- borrowed from precognition
Definitions
Knowledge of the future
Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.
The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.
The neighborhood
- synonymforeknowledge
- synonymforesight
- synonymprecognition
- synonymprescience
- neighborcognition
- neighborclairvoyance
- neighborgut feeling
- neighborintuition
- neighborsixth sense
- neighbordivination
- neighbororacle
- neighborprecognitive
- neighborpredict
- neighborprediction
- neighborpredictor
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for precognition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA