precognition
Knowing beforehand, paranormally
Precognition is knowledge of future events before they occur, obtained through supernatural or extrasensory means rather than inference or prediction.
The term appears in discussions of psychic phenomena and parapsychology: She claimed precognition of the accident.
In science fiction and fantasy, characters with precognition can see what will happen.
The word implies direct perception of the future, not educated guessing.
Advance sense of future events
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
mind-reading · psychometry · channeling · medium · visions · impressions · flashes · knowing
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
inkling · anticipation · forewarning · suspicion · awareness · perception · foreshadowing · unease
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- soothsayingForetelling future events
augury · foretelling · prognostication · revelation · visionary · sibyl · prophet · diviner
Ability to anticipate futures
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
Ceremonial set of actions
- tarotDivination card set
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- runesOld Germanic script
tea-leaves · séance · mysticism · esoteric · arcane · supernatural · metaphysical
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
extrasensory · mind-reading · psychometry · channeling · medium · visions · impressions · flashes · knowing · sensitivity
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
- presentimentVague sense of future events
foreboding · inkling · anticipation · forewarning · suspicion · awareness · perception · foreshadowing · unease
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
soothsaying · augury · foretelling · prognostication · revelation · visionary · sibyl · prophet · diviner · fortune-telling
foresight
Ability to anticipate futures
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- predictionForecast of coming events
forewarning · prevision · glimpse · flash-forward · foreseeing
ritual
Ceremonial set of actions
- tarotDivination card set
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
runes · tea-leaves · séance · mysticism · esoteric · arcane · supernatural · metaphysical
science-fiction
Speculative technology-based literature
X-Men · Cassandra · time-travel · dystopia · gifted · abilities
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition
- foresightforesight, futurology, forethought, premonition, forecasts
- supernatural powerstelekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, levitation, invisibility
- superpowerstelekinesis, telepathy, superpower, invisibility, force powers
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- mystic powerspsychic powers, psychic abilities, clairvoyance, third eye, telepathy
precognitionhindsight
Recognition after the fact
memory · recollection · remembrance · retrospection · recall
precognitionobliviousness
Lack of awareness
cluelessness · unawareness · surprise · stupidity · ignorance
precognitiondeduction
Conclusion from premises
inference · logical analysis · reasoning · observation · calculation