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prescience
[ presh-uhns, -ee-uhns, pree-shuhns, -shee-uhns ]
noun
- knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
prescience
/ ˈprɛsɪəns /
noun
- knowledge of events before they take place; foreknowledge
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Derived Forms
- ˈprescient, adjective
- ˈpresciently, adverb
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Other Words From
- prescient adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prescience1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prescience1
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Example Sentences
Her prescience and her instincts go unheeded, and the damage that she causes threatens to consume her altogether.
A novelist friend of mine talks about literary prescience—she writes about something and then it comes true.
Rather 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.
In good time he had selected and laid out the inevitable field of battle with military prescience of the first order.
In reading this magnificent and well-known sentence from Hooker, the imagination is easily kindled to a divine prescience.
He had a keen prescience that the death of the favourite of the harem might influence very quickly Dilama's fate.
Now, the Governor had never been as quick as that, and I ascribe it to the uncanny prescience which comes to the very sick.
No man I know on the earth's surface, who greater prescience has than thou, Gripir!
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