Prognostication vs Prevision - What's the difference?
prognostication | prevision | Related terms |
A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
* 1837 , The Dublin University Magazine
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.
Prognostication is a related term of prevision.
As nouns the difference between prognostication and prevision
is that prognostication is a statement about or prior knowledge of the future while prevision is prevision.prognostication
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.