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Prognostication vs Precognition - What's the difference?

prognostication | precognition | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between prognostication and precognition

is that prognostication is a statement about or prior knowledge of the future while precognition is the ability to foresee the future.

prognostication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
  • * 1837 , The Dublin University Magazine
  • She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications , but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.

    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