Meaning

To perceive or sense in advance..

Definitions by Sense

1. To perceive or sense in advance.
2. The perception of a thing in advance.
3. The ability to perceive in advance.
4. Good or right judgement beforehand.

Example Sentences

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."

“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.

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."

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 […]"

Word Forms

• foresenses
• foresensing
• foresensed

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