precognition
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kɒgˈnɪʃ noun
1.
knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
2.
Scots Law.
a.
the examination of witnesses and other parties before a trial in order to supply a legal ground for prosecution.
b.
the evidence established in such an examination.
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precognition (ˌpriːkɒɡˈnɪʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| psychol clairvoyance See also clairaudience the alleged ability to foresee future events | |
| [C17: from Late Latin praecognitiō foreknowledge, from praecognoscere to foresee, from prae before + cognoscere to know, ascertain] | |
| precognitive | |
| —adj | |
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Precognition
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
precognition
"foreknowledge," 1611, from L.L. præcognitio, from L. præcognitus, pp. of præcognoscere "to foreknow," from præ + cognoscere "to know" (see cognizance).
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Medical Dictionary
precognition pre·cog·ni·tion (prē'kŏg-nĭsh'ən)
n.
Knowledge of something in advance of its occurrence, especially by extrasensory perception.
pre·cog'ni·tive adj.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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precognition
supernormal knowledge of future events, with emphasis not upon mentally causing events to occur but upon predicting those the occurrence of which the subject claims has already been determined. Like telepathy and clairvoyance, precognition is said to operate without recourse to the normal senses and thus to be a form of extrasensory perception (ESP).
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Example sentences
The test in telepathy and precognition or whatever and guess what those experiments all turn to be absolutely null.
Precognition is the paranormal perception of future events.
Either you have demonstrated precognition or you have not.
Clairvoyants who possess precognition will likely remain fiction.
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