Prevision vs Presentiment - What's the difference?
prevision | presentiment | Related terms |
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.
To predict or envision the future.
A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
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* 1973 , Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight :
Prevision is a related term of presentiment.
As nouns the difference between prevision and presentiment
is that prevision is prevision while presentiment is a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.prevision
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(previsions)Verb
presentiment
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Noun
(en noun)- Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.