prevision

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prevision - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prevision \Pre*vi"sion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vision.]
     Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. --H. Spencer.
     [1913 Webster]

prevision - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prevision
      n 1: a prophetic vision (as in a dream)
      2: the power to foresee the future [syn: prescience,
         prevision]
      3: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn:
         prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience]
      4: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
         [syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision]