foresense
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To perceive or sense in advance.
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 […]""
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-der. Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₂éy Proto-Germanic *furai Proto-Germanic *furai- Proto-West Germanic *forē- Old English fore- Middle English fore- English fore- Proto-Indo-European *sent-der. Proto-Italic *sentiō Latin sentiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin sēnsusbor. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz Frankish *sinnbor. Vulgar Latin *sennus Old French sensbor. Middle English sense English sense English foresense From fore- + sense.