premeditations
Plans made beforehand
Premeditations are acts of thinking about or planning something in advance, especially something harmful or criminal.
The word appears most often in legal contexts: premeditations of murder, evidence of premeditations.
First-degree murder charges typically require proving the defendant's premeditations rather than impulsive action.
Planning before acting
- preparationArranging things in advance
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- plottingDevising a secret plan
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
orchestration · coordination · calculation · design · blueprint · strategy · groundwork · staging
Having deliberate intent
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- resolveFirmness of purpose
- designPurposeful creative planning
malice · aforethought · calculation · scheming · plotting · contrivance · predetermination · preconception
Sustained reflective attention
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
cogitation · introspection · thoughtfulness · reasoning · analysis · evaluation · weighing · assessment
Belief about future outcomes
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
prescience · foreknowledge · apprehension · foreboding · premonition · visualization · projection · speculation
forethought
Planning before acting
- preparationArranging things in advance
- schemingCrafty and calculating
- plottingDevising a secret plan
arrangement · orchestration · coordination · calculation · design · blueprint · strategy · groundwork · staging · setup
purposefulness
Having deliberate intent
- willfulnessIntentional resistance to direction
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- resolveFirmness of purpose
design · malice · aforethought · calculation · scheming · plotting · contrivance · predetermination · preconception · predisposition
contemplation
Sustained reflective attention
- reflectionReturned light or thought
- considerationCareful thought or compensation
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
rumination · cogitation · introspection · thoughtfulness · reasoning · analysis · evaluation · weighing · assessment · calculation
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
prognostication · prescience · foreknowledge · apprehension · foreboding · premonition · visualization · projection · speculation · forward-thinking
premeditationsimpulses
Sudden inclinations to act
snap decisions · whims · knee-jerk reactions · gut reactions · reflexes
premeditationsaccidents
Unintended harmful occurrences
coincidences · happenstances · flukes · oversights · mistakes
premeditationsspontaneity
Acting without forethought
impulsiveness · impulsivity · rashness · thoughtlessness · heedlessness