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Prevision

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

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Narrower term 6

Adumbration 76% connected

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

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Prefiguration 76% connected

The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.

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Prognostication 76% connected

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

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Projection 76% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Prophecy 76% connected

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

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Vaticination 76% connected

Prediction; prophecy.

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Broader term 4

Capacity 76% connected

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.

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Knowing 76% connected

of Know

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Reasoning 76% connected

of Reason

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Vision 76% connected

The act of seeing external objects; actual sight.

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Farsighted 74% connected

Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Farsighted 74% connected

Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

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Synonym 6

Anticipation 92% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Farsightedness 92% connected

Quality of bbeing farsighted.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Foresight 92% connected

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prediction 92% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prescience 92% connected

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prospicience 92% connected

The act of looking forward.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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