Precognition is an English word with synonyms like foreknowledge or clairvoyance. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Precognition in a sentence
Precognition meaning
- Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.
- The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.
Synonyms of Precognition
Using Precognition
- The main meaning on this page is: Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception. | The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.
- Useful related words include: foreknowledge, clairvoyance, second sight, extrasensory perception.
- In the example corpus, precognition often appears in combinations such as: for precognition, precognition that, of precognition.
Context around Precognition
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Precognition
- In this selection, "precognition" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, battle, considers, powers and clairaudience stand out and add context to how "precognition" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include community considers precognition to be and divined through precognition that will. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "precognition" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with precognition
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There is therefore no direct justification for precognition from physics.. (10 words)
The untainted experimental results showed no evidence of precognition in the hits or the ratios. (15 words)
Precognition is the claimed paranormal ability to predict the future – and is widely considered to be pseudoscience. (17 words)
There is nothing I can add to Deborah’s video except that either she knows what she’s talking about or she has a great sense of precognition. (28 words)
All of this he has done in accordance with a prophecy divined through precognition that will establish an enforced peace preventing humanity from destroying itself through aggressive behavior. (28 words)
The paper reported seven experiments testing for precognition that "found no evidence supporting its existence.” citation citation Scientific reception There is no known mechanism for precognition. (26 words)
Example sentences (10)
The paper reported seven experiments testing for precognition that "found no evidence supporting its existence.” citation citation Scientific reception There is no known mechanism for precognition.
Midnighter's battle precognition powers coupled with Apollo's solar absorption abilities would make for dynamic fight scenes.
Mossbridge’s dreams for a precog economy are undoubtedly ambitious, particularly as the scientific community considers precognition to be pseudoscience.
Precognition is the claimed paranormal ability to predict the future – and is widely considered to be pseudoscience.
There is nothing I can add to Deborah’s video except that either she knows what she’s talking about or she has a great sense of precognition.
All of this he has done in accordance with a prophecy divined through precognition that will establish an enforced peace preventing humanity from destroying itself through aggressive behavior.
Precognition would violate the principle of antecedence ( causality ), that an effect does not happen before its cause.
There is therefore no direct justification for precognition from physics..
These include—but are not limited to—precognition, clairaudience, telepathy, and divine sight (via the opening of the third eye or celestial eye).
The untainted experimental results showed no evidence of precognition in the hits or the ratios.
Common combinations with precognition
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- for precognition 3×
- precognition that 2×
- of precognition 2×