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prevision

noun
/pɹɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/UK

Etymology

From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.

  1. derived from praevideo
  2. derived from praevisio
  3. derived from prevision
  4. inherited from previsioun

Definitions

  1. Advance knowledge

    Advance knowledge; foresight.

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

  2. A prediction.

  3. To predict or envision the future.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prevision. 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