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Noun: prevision  pri'vi-zhun
  1. The power to foresee the future
    "The investor's prevision allowed him to anticipate market trends";
    - prescience
     
  2. Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
    "Her prevision in market trends gave the company a competitive edge";
    - foresight, farsightedness, prospicience
     
  3. The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
    "The economist's prevision of market trends impressed his colleagues";
    - prediction, anticipation
     
  4. A prophetic vision (as in a dream)
    "Her prevision of the accident turned out to be eerily accurate"

Derived forms: previsions

Type of: abstract thought, capacity, knowing, logical thinking, mental ability, reasoning, vision