prescience
knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
Origin of prescience
1Other words from prescience
- prescient, adjective
Words Nearby prescience
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Now scientists have much more data, and have narrowed the possibilities in a way that confirms the prescience of Friedmann’s math.
A century ago, Alexander Friedmann envisioned the universe’s expansion | Tom Siegfried | May 20, 2022 | Science NewsThough Butler’s vision may be more anarchical than the United States of today, her prescience—particularly regarding the urgent climate threats faced by California—is undeniable.
20 Essential Works of Climate Fiction for Your Reading List | smurguia | October 5, 2021 | Outside OnlineMelange also conveys a kind of prescience and makes faster-than-light travel practical.
Latest Dune trailer gives us our best look yet at Denis Villeneuve’s epic film | Jennifer Ouellette | July 22, 2021 | Ars TechnicaInterestingly, a 2017 study done at the University of Kansas found that the onset of Uber caused ambulance use to drop by seven percent—apparently people in less dire straits have the prescience to avoid huge bills, even in their moment of crisis.
These Futuristic Flying Ambulances May Soon Be Zooming Around New York | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | January 8, 2021 | Singularity HubHer prescience and her instincts go unheeded, and the damage that she causes threatens to consume her altogether.
‘Homeland’ and ‘The Good Wife’ Season Premieres: Review | Jace Lacob | September 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
A novelist friend of mine talks about literary prescience—she writes about something and then it comes true.
The Inadvertent Roman-a-Clef: Not Writing a Novel About Daniel Pearl | Joshua Henkin | July 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTRather than celebrating their prescience, the bloggers sound downright dismayed.
Blue Leaves also attracted Stiller with its prescience about our society's obsession with fame.
Proving that in this case, provenance—and prescience—can be quite lucrative.
Kate Middleton's Charity-Auction Dress Auctioned in London | Robin Givhan | March 15, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTIn good time he had selected and laid out the inevitable field of battle with military prescience of the first order.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonIn reading this magnificent and well-known sentence from Hooker, the imagination is easily kindled to a divine prescience.
The College, the Market, and the Court | Caroline H. DallHe had a keen prescience that the death of the favourite of the harem might influence very quickly Dilama's fate.
Six Women | Victoria CrossNow, the Governor had never been as quick as that, and I ascribe it to the uncanny prescience which comes to the very sick.
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonNo man I know on the earth's surface, who greater prescience has than thou, Gripir!
The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson | Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson
British Dictionary definitions for prescience
/ (ˈprɛsɪəns) /
knowledge of events before they take place; foreknowledge
Origin of prescience
1Derived forms of prescience
- prescient, adjective
- presciently, adverb
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