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Foresight vs Precognition - What's the difference?

foresight | precognition |

As nouns the difference between foresight and precognition

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while precognition is the ability to foresee the future.

foresight

English

Noun

(-)
  • The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
    • Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
  • the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
  • (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

    • Synonyms

    * (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

    Antonyms

    * hindsight

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * foresee * backsight

    Anagrams

    * English abstract nouns

    precognition

    English

    (wikipedia precognition)

    Noun

  • (parapsychology) The ability to foresee the future.
  • (parapsychology) Knowledge of an event that is to occur in the future.
  • (Scotland) The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.

    • Synonyms

    * clairvoyance

    Derived terms

    * precognitive

    Related terms

    * cognition