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
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Definitions
- n. 1
Knowing beforehand. Knowing beforehand via supernatural or paranormal means.
Related words
- Word family
- foreknow
Forms
- Plural
- foreknowledges → presciences, precognitions, foresights, prophecies…
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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
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| foreknowledge | rising | |
| prophecy | rising | |
| foresight | steady | |
| precognition | steady | |
| prescience | steady | |
| predestination | rising |
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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