precognitive
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9.9
- adjective
- /priːˈkɒɡnɪtɪv/
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precognitivo
- There is direct, spontaneous, and precognitive appreciation of something through its immediate quality before it is subject to reflection.
- precognitive experience
And when I said precognitive, I meant by that it seemed to know how we would respond before an event occurred.
- And when I said precognitive, I meant by that it seemed to know how we would respond before an event occurred.
Examples
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This hypothesis is one of many ways in which Whitehead's philosophy of universal creativity can be made compatible with apparent precognitive experiences.
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I think what's happening is precognitive dreaming.
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And if we were precognitive, we could clean up at Vegas.
Blog text (1) -
And when I said precognitive, I meant by that it seemed to know how we would respond before an event occurred.
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And your psychic awareness will come through precognitive dreams where you have dreams of future events.
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At its most basic level, experience, said Dewey, is precognitive.
Academic text (1991) -
Instinct is a precognitive faculty that drives almost all creatures to behave successfully within their environment.
Academic text (1998) -
My rationale offered for using heart to name the center of our individual and species identity suggests that the heart is the source of our precognitive awareness of human solidarity.
Academic text (1995) -
Lawrence sees intuitive, precognitive thinking as a vortex of motion and emotion, spiraling out of the unconscious towards clarification and resolution:
Academic text (2003) -
She often experiences precognitive dreams that accurately predict future events.
Synonyms
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4.9
Able to show or guess what will happen in the future
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8.9
Knowing about things before they happen
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9.3
Showing or claiming the ability to see events before they happen
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To plan ahead to meet future needs and avoid problems
Feeling that something will happen before it does
Able to see events before they happen
Relating to ways people try to tell the future
Able to think about and plan for the future
Careful when planning ahead to avoid problems
How Predictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
precognitive = cognitive (semi-transparent) = pre + cognit + ive
The prefix 'pre-' and base 'cognitive' clearly suggest prior knowing, but the specific sense of paranormal or future-oriented foresight is more specialized than a fully regular compositional meaning.
Etymology
The word precognitive starts with pre- meaning 'before' and uses cogn meaning 'know', as in the word recognize, so it means 'knowing' something before it happens.