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PRECOGNITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does precognition mean? 

PRECOGNITION (noun)
  The noun PRECOGNITION has 1 sense:

1. knowledge of an event before it occursplay

  Familiarity information: PRECOGNITION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRECOGNITION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Knowledge of an event before it occurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

foreknowledge; precognition

Hypernyms ("precognition" is a kind of...):

clairvoyance; E.S.P.; ESP; extrasensory perception; second sight (apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Great oaks from little acorns grow." (English proverb)

"The young have strength, the old knowledge." (Albanian proverb)

"First think, then speak." (Armenian proverb)

"A closed mouth catches neither flies nor food." (Corsican proverb)



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