different between prophecy vs precognition

English

Etymology

From Middle English prophecie, from Old French prophetie, from Latin proph?t?a, from Ancient Greek ????????? (proph?teía, “prophecy”), from ???????? (proph?t?s, “speaker of a god”), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ???? (ph?mí, “I tell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??f.?.si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??f?si/

Noun

prophecy (countable and uncountable, plural prophecies)

1. A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

   French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.

2. The public interpretation of Scripture.

Derived terms

• self-fulfilling prophecy
• self-defeating prophecy

Related terms

• prophesy
• prophet
• prophetic

Translations

Verb

prophecy (third-person singular simple present prophecies, present participle prophecying, simple past and past participle prophecied)

1. (chiefly dated) Alternative form of prophesy
   • 1967, George King, The Five Temples Of God, The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:

     The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.

   • 2001, Marjorie Garber, "“ ” (Quotation Marks)", in S.I. Salamensky, Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation, Routledge, page 142:

     One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club: […]

   • 2013, Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity, Routledge, page 135:

     The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.

   • 2014, Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions, Routledge, page 85:

     the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);

Middle English

Noun

prophecy

1. Alternative form of prophecie

English

Etymology

From Middle French precognition or its source, Latin praecognitio(n-), from praecogn?scere (“to know beforehand”). Equivalent to Germanic cognate foreknowledge and Grecian cognate prognosis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?i?k???n??n?/

Noun

precognition (countable and uncountable, plural precognitions)

1. (parapsychology) Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception. [from 15th c.]
2. (Scotland, law) The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial. [from 17th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     ‘But it seems there are some strong presumptuous proofs against you, and I came to warn you this day that a precognition is in progress, and that unless you are perfectly convinced, not only of your innocence, but of your ability to prove it, it will be the safest course for you to abscond, and let the trial go on without you.’

Synonyms

• clairvoyance
• foreknowledge
• anticipation

Derived terms

• precognitive

Related terms

• cognition

Translations