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Synonyms for foreknowledge

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Noun

1. Prescience — knowing beforehand. Knowing beforehand via supernatural or paranormal means

prescience, precognition, foresight, prophecy, premonition, clairvoyance, presage, foreboding, divination, psychicness

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Knowing beforehand. Knowing beforehand via supernatural or paranormal means.

Related words

Word family
foreknow

Forms

Plural
foreknowledges → presciences, precognitions, foresights, prophecies…

Choose the right word

Foreknowledge or Foreordination?

Foreknowledge is simply God's antecedent knowledge of all events, which some hold to be entirely separable from his foreordination, while others hold foreordination to be inseparably involved in foreknowledge.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • prophecy "It's not my job" is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • foresight Clear foresight contributed greatly to his success.
  • precognition Tom believes in precognition.
  • predestination They adhere to the idea of predestination.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
foreknowledgerising
prophecyrising
foresightsteady
precognitionsteady
presciencesteady
predestinationrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters
presage2
8 letters
prophecy3
9 letters
foresight2
10 letters
divination4, foreboding3, prescience3
11 letters
premonition4, psychicness
12 letters
clairvoyance3, precognition
14 letters
predestination5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (presage2 = 2 syllables).

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