Usually means: Foreseeing events before they happen.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. precognition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. precognition: Merriam-Webster
  3. precognition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. precognition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. precognition: Collins English Dictionary
  6. precognition: Vocabulary.com
  7. Precognition, precognition: Wordnik
  8. precognition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. precognition: Wiktionary
  10. precognition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. precognition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. precognition: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. precognition: Dictionary.com
  14. precognition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Precognition (Scots law), Precognition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Precognition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. precognition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. precognition: Rhymezone
  19. Precognition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. precognition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. precognition: FreeDictionary.org
  22. precognition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. precognition: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. precognition: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precognition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. precognition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. precognition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Precognition: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. precognition: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precognition: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (parapsychology) Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception.
noun:  (Scots law) The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.

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