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Definition of Precognitive

1. Adjective. Foreseeing the future.

Definition of Precognitive

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the ability to see or predict future events. ¹

2. Noun. (science fiction) A precognitive person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Precognitive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Precognitive

Literary usage of Precognitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poetic Mind by Frederick Clarke Prescott (1922)
"He believes the evidence sufficient to show that visionary thought has precognitive powers, and concludes: "As is the memory and the foresight of a child to ..."

2. The Poetic Mind by Frederick Clarke Prescott (1922)
"In any investigation of the prophetic nature of poetry, however, I believe we must always ask what is the precognitive power not of the ordinary thought, ..."

3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"Alan hadn't ever been personally called before Mr. Davenport, but Billy got into some spot of precognitive trouble from time to time, rushing out of class ..."

4. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"For example, precognitive images often feel real, and are real because they match real-life events in the future. Afterlife-oriented hallucinations of the ..."

5. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... are at least within our range of analogical conception, we have noted also a precognitive capacity of a type which no fact as yet known to science will ..."

6. The Poetic Mind by Frederick Clarke Prescott (1922)
"He believes the evidence sufficient to show that visionary thought has precognitive powers, and concludes: "As is the memory and the foresight of a child to ..."

7. The Poetic Mind by Frederick Clarke Prescott (1922)
"In any investigation of the prophetic nature of poetry, however, I believe we must always ask what is the precognitive power not of the ordinary thought, ..."

8. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"Alan hadn't ever been personally called before Mr. Davenport, but Billy got into some spot of precognitive trouble from time to time, rushing out of class ..."

9. At the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis, Erlendur Haraldsson (1997)
"For example, precognitive images often feel real, and are real because they match real-life events in the future. Afterlife-oriented hallucinations of the ..."

10. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... are at least within our range of analogical conception, we have noted also a precognitive capacity of a type which no fact as yet known to science will ..."

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