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Prevision vs Premonition - What's the difference?

prevision | premonition |

As nouns the difference between prevision and premonition

is that prevision is prevision while premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

prevision

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(previsions)
  • Advance knowledge; foresight.
  • *1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • *: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.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
  • *:The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and their is no prevision of their obsolescence.
  • A prediction.

    • Verb

  • To predict or envision the future.

    • premonition

    English

    (wikipedia premonition)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
  • A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

    • Synonyms

    * bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

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