prescience
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- prescient adjective
- presciently adverb
Etymology
Origin of prescience
First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English, from Late Latin praescientia “foreknowledge”; equivalent to pre- + science
Example Sentences
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The same result using active management requires superior valuation techniques, prescience in forecasting innovation and its addressable market, and conviction in sizing each bet.
And many are crediting his prescience in getting Chevron to stay in the country all those years.
If anything, his adaptation proves Mary Shelley’s prescience.
From Los Angeles Times
If warnings of an artificial-intelligence bubble turn out to be true, Danoff’s retirement may look, in retrospect, like a final act of market prescience.
From Barron's
What does surprise is his prescience about still-relevant concerns, from a disappearing middle class to police brutality.
From Los Angeles Times
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