prevision

1. 1.

   a prophetic vision (as in a dream)

   Broadervision
2. 2.

   the power to foresee the future

   Synonymsprescience

   Broadercapacity
3. 3.

   seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

   Synonymsforesightfarsightednessprospicience

   Broaderknowing
4. 4.

   the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

   Synonymspredictionanticipation

   Broaderreasoning

   Narrowerprojectionprophecyprefiguration

Other forms of prevision

plural

previsions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prevision

What does prevision mean?

prevision means "a prophetic vision (as in a dream)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prevision?

prevision has 4 syllables: pre-vi-si-on. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for prevision?

Close synonyms include prescience, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience, prediction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prevision a common word?

prevision is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.