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- Dictionarypre·science/ˈpreSH(ē)əns/
noun
- 1. the fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge: "with extraordinary prescience, Jung actually predicted the Nazi eruption"
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Prescience is the ability to know something before it happens, either by divine or human foresight. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and word history of prescience from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Prescience is the ability to know or correctly suggest what will happen in the future. Learn how to use this word in sentences and see translations in different languages.
If you can see into the future, then you have prescience. The word prescience might look like pre + science, but it really comes from the Latin word praescientia, which means "fore-knowledge" — or knowledge you know before anyone else.
PRESCIENCE meaning: 1. the ability to know or correctly suggest what will happen in the future: 2. the ability to know…. Learn more.
Prescience is a formal word for the ability to know what will or might happen in the future. Learn how to use it in a sentence and see examples of prescience in different contexts.
Prescience definition: Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
the quality of knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen. She showed great prescience in selling her shares just before the market crashed. Take your English to the next level. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
