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Definition of Prevision

1. Noun. A prophetic vision (as in a dream).

2. Noun. The power to foresee the future.

3. Noun. Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing.

4. Noun. The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future).

Definition of Prevision

1. n. Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

Definition of Prevision

1. Noun. Advance knowledge; foresight. ¹

2. Noun. A prediction. ¹

3. Verb. To predict or envision the future. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prevision

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prevision

previews preving previous previous(a) previous(p) previous question previously previously disadvantaged previousness previousnesses

previs previse prevised previses prevising prevision (current term) previsional previsionary previsioned previsioning

previsions previsit previsited previsiting previsits previsive previsor previsors previsualization previsualizations

Literary usage of Prevision

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

1. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"prevision OF SOCIAL PHENOMENA. The last of the preliminary considerations prevision of that we have to review is that of the scientific social pheno- ..."

2. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1875)
"We have to contemplate social phenomena as me"a- susceptible of prevision, like all other classes, within the limits of exactness compatible with their ..."

3. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"We have to contemplate social phenomena as m""*- susceptible of prevision, like all other classes, within the limits of exactness compatible with their ..."

4. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1875)
"We have to contemplate social phenomena as mena- susceptible of prevision, like all other classes, within the limits of exactness compatible with their ..."

5. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1853)
"The last of the preliminary considerations that prevision of we have to review is ... We have to contemplate social phenomena as susceptible of prevision, ..."

6. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Harriet Martineau (1893)
"about comets was destroyed by the prevision of their return; though lhe experiments by which Franklin established the identity of the lightning with the ..."

7. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"than others, that rational prevision is applicable, seeing that prevision continuity is the distinctive characteristic of sociological con- ..."

8. A Practical Manual of Animal Magnetism: Containing an Exposition of the by Alphonse Téste, Daniel Spillan (1843)
"Of Interior prevision. Lucid somnambulists have not only the consciousness of their present physiological or pathological state, but they can even announce ..."

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