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precognitive.

Adjective
HorrorLiterary
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Involving claimed knowledge of future events without ordinary inference.

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  • precognitive dream

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A precognitive dream warned the narrator.
He believed the image was precognitive.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable in clinical or relational use; degree comparison is limited to naturally gradable figurative applications. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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