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Antonyms for precognition


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pree-kog-nish-uh n
Phonetic Transcription : ˌpri kɒgˈnɪʃ ən



Definition of precognition

Origin :
  • "foreknowledge," mid-15c., from Late Latin praecognitionem (nom. praecognitio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin praecognoscere "to foreknow," from prae "before" (see pre-) + cognoscere "to know" (see cognizance).
  • noun clairvoyance
Example sentences :
  • Would you consider a person fortunate to possess the power of precognition?
  • Extract from : « Card Trick » by Walter Bupp AKA Randall Garrett
  • What she had said about expecting to find me on the roof sounded like precognition.
  • Extract from : « Vigorish » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Precognition is the least understood of the Psi powers, and the most erratic.
  • Extract from : « Vigorish » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • It might be that there was such a thing as precognition in the form Morgan had described.
  • Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • "I'm telling him the facts of life about precognition," Morgan told her.
  • Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • That precognition about me, it doesn't include Madame Porvis?
  • Extract from : « Talents, Incorporated » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • Howsever, I suppose thats to be considered in the precognition!
  • Extract from : « The Entail » by John Galt
  • Malone wondered if, just maybe, his precognition had blown a fuse.
  • Extract from : « Occasion for Disaster » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • "But I saw no harm in seeing what she is like with precognition," I said.
  • Extract from : « The Right Time » by Walter Bupp
  • The evidence for precognition, again, was from the first scantier, and has advanced at a slower rate.
  • Extract from : « Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death » by Frederick W. H. Myers

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