Precognize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To display or have precognition; to have (paranormal) knowledge of a future event before it occurs.
"One fact of importance is that so far as the evidence goes we do not precognize the whole of our future. Why is this? It may have the same sort of explanation as the fact that we do not remember the whole of our past."
Example
More examples"One fact of importance is that so far as the evidence goes we do not precognize the whole of our future. Why is this? It may have the same sort of explanation as the fact that we do not remember the whole of our past."
Etymology
From pre- + cognize or back-formed from precognizance, precognition.
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