foresense
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3ADJ.
great, knowing, later
VERB + FORESENSE
called, gift
FORESENSE + NOUN
anyone, someone
Definitions
verb
To perceive or sense in advance.
How could these publishers foresense (what anyone can now perceive) that to give Dr. Sidis their clients' humorous writings to quote from would be like giving a Gutenburg Bible to the baby?
He knows much, but he foresenses more than he chooses to tell."
noun
The perception of a thing in advance.
The ability to perceive in advance.
I said, "I know it's probably strange to have the gift of foresense. Just knowing someone would be great before anyone else does. But you were right."
Good or right judgement beforehand.
The chairman of Vanderbilt's graduate department of religion, H. Jackson Forstman, had accepted Gore into his program with what he later called “the foresense to realize that this young man was going to get involved in a lot of other things […]"
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5How could these publishers foresense (what anyone can now perceive) that to give Dr. Sidis their clients' humorous writings to quote from would be like giving a Gutenburg Bible to the baby?
WiktionaryHe knows much, but he foresenses more than he chooses to tell."
Wiktionary“Hey—” The way animals—men and dogs—foresense a great act of weather is in a sudden confusion of terms, an eerie loss of measurement.
WiktionaryI said, "I know it's probably strange to have the gift of foresense. Just knowing someone would be great before anyone else does. But you were right."
WiktionaryThe chairman of Vanderbilt's graduate department of religion, H. Jackson Forstman, had accepted Gore into his program with what he later called “the foresense to realize that this young man was going
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