PREVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prevision mean? 

• PREVISION (noun)
  The noun PREVISION has 4 senses:

1. a prophetic vision (as in a dream)

2. the power to foresee the future

3. seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

4. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

  Familiarity information: PREVISION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A prophetic vision (as in a dream)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("prevision" is a kind of...):

vision (a vivid mental image)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The power to foresee the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

prescience; prevision

Hypernyms ("prevision" is a kind of...):

capacity; mental ability (the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

farsightedness; foresight; prevision; prospicience

Hypernyms ("prevision" is a kind of...):

knowing (a clear and certain mental apprehension)

Derivation:

previse (realize beforehand)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

anticipation; prediction; prevision

Hypernyms ("prevision" is a kind of...):

abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning (thinking that is coherent and logical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prevision"):

projection (a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations)

prognostication; prophecy; vaticination (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))

adumbration; foreshadowing; prefiguration (the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand)

 Context examples 

Yet his attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested; and it was with a strong, superstitious prevision of success that he withdrew into the entry of the court.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)