foreknowledgenoun [ U ]
uk/fɔːˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/fɔːrˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/formalknowledge of an event before it happens
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Predicting things and intuition
- augur
- augury
- bellwether
- betcha
- bode
- far-sighted
- intuition
- intuitive
- nasty
- omen
- ominous
- projection
- prophetic
- psychic
- read sb's mind idiom
- read sb's palm idiom
- read the runes idiom
- scenario
- scent
- visionary
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Examples from literature
- But there again foreknowledge was impotent against fate.
- If God's foreknowledge be certain, it seems to exclude the possibility of man's free will.
- The Archbishop paused for a moment, thinking how best to avoid any appearance of foreknowledge.
- They had foreknowledge of danger long before horses or human beings could suspect it.
- Two or three look sick with foreknowledge of what they have to witness.