1. prevision(n = noun.cognition) - a prophetic vision (as in a dream);
is a kind of vision
2. prevision(n = noun.cognition) prescience - the power to foresee the future;
is a kind of capacity, mental ability
3. prevision(n = noun.cognition) farsightedness, foresight, prospicience - seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing;
is a kind of knowing
Derived form verb previse2
4. prevision(n = noun.cognition) anticipation, prediction - the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future);
is a kind of abstract thought, logical thinking, reasoning
has particulars: projection, prognostication, prophecy, vaticination, adumbration, foreshadowing, prefiguration
Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer. [1913 Webster]
N foresight, prospicience, prevision, long- sightedness, anticipation, providence, forethought, forecast, predeliberation, presurmise, foregone conclusion, prudence, foreknowledge, prognosis, precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment, second sight, sagacity, antepast, prelibation, prophasis, prospect, foretaste, prospectus, foreseeing, prescient, farseeing, farsighted, sagacious, weatherwise, provident, prospective, against the time when, cernit omnia Deus vindex, mihi cura futuri, run it up the flagpole and see who salutes.