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prevision vs projection

projection vs prevision

prevision and projection both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
prevision Yes No No No
projection Yes No No No
As nouns, projection is a hyponym of prevision; that is, projection is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than prevision:
  • prevision: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
  • projection: a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
Other hyponyms of prevision include prognostication, prophecy, vaticination, adumbration, foreshadowing, prefiguration.
prevision (noun) projection (noun)
the power to foresee the future the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
a prophetic vision (as in a dream) the act of projecting out from something
seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing any structure that branches out from a central support
the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
a planned undertaking
a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
any solid convex shape that juts out from something
Difference between prevision and projection

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