4
caution(noun, care, consideration, protection, safeguard)
4
design(noun, plan, belief, hope)
4
faith(noun, desire, concern, belief, hope)
4
foreseeing(noun, guess, estimate, awareness, readiness)
4
foretaste(noun, hope, expectation, readiness, forethought)
4
hunch(noun, feeling, idea, foreboding, instinct)
4
insight(care, caution, perception, prudence, discernment)
4
intention(noun, plan, belief, hope)
4
preparedness(noun, organization, study, increase, plan)
4
prevention(noun, stoppage, deterrence, preemption)
4
provision(noun, organization, study, increase, plan)
4
prudence(noun, care, caution, consideration, protection)
3
anachronism
3
antecedence(noun, precedence)
3
antedate
3
anxiety(noun, confusion, doubt, uncertainty, expectation)
3
attention(noun, study, understanding, exercise, hope)
3
awareness(noun, feeling, readiness, foreboding, intuition)
3
calculation(noun, plan, view, belief, guess)
3
circumspection(noun, care, caution, protection, safeguard)
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