foresense

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The perception of a thing in advance. uncountable
  2. The ability to perceive in advance. uncountable
    — 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."
  3. Good or right judgement beforehand. uncountable
    — 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 […]"
动词 v.
  1. 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?

词形变化

foresenses present,singular,third-person foresensing participle,present foresensed participle,past foresensed past

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
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.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
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.
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