Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Foreknowledge; previous knowledge; knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
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- noun Knowledge of events before they take place;
foresight ;foreknowledge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the power to foresee the future
Etymologies
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Examples
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In some of us, the gift of prescience is so great that it enables us to see far ahead to the new paths along which human progress will travel.
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But such a prescience is not the cause why any thing is so or so, though in the event it certainly will be so, as the mathematician who foresees an eclipse does not thereby cause that eclipse to be.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Williams’ prescience is kind of stunning at times.
Waldo Jaquith - Murat Williams’ 1966 forecast of Virginia politics today. 2008
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The discovery of the possibility of transmitting power by a wire, and converting it again into mechanical energy, is a strange story of the human blindness that almost always attends an acuteness, a thinking power, a prescience, that is the characteristic of humanity alone, but which so often stops short of results.
Steam, Steel and Electricity James W. Steele
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Above all, that additional sense which may be defined as prescience, and, which was a development of the other five, was alive within him, ready to warn him of a hostile presence.
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He gets credit for the Panama Canal Treaty, the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, advocacy of human rights, and for "prescience" in warning Americans about the economic and political consequences of their addiction to oil.
Glenn C. Altschuler: Jimmy Carter's Last Campaign Glenn C. Altschuler 2010
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He gets credit for the Panama Canal Treaty, the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, advocacy of human rights, and for "prescience" in warning Americans about the economic and political consequences of their addiction to oil.
Glenn C. Altschuler: Jimmy Carter's Last Campaign Glenn C. Altschuler 2010
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If people did have that kind of prescience, they should play the stock market instead and become so rich that who is in office would not matter to them anymore.
George Stephanopoulos Responds To Obama, Defends Handling Of Debate 2009
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Perhaps, he's been reading too many of his on-line admirers "prescience" comments.
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If the detective had a memory, it was of a peculiar kind that allowed him to absorb his prior experiences to such an extent and so densely that it almost qualified as a kind of prescience: an instinct lodged in the hindbrain, it allowed him to extrapolate from clues toward final solutions, but did not afford him the luxury of his own memories.
Rebel Samizdat and Heretic Editions: Excerpt and Limited Details for Jeff VanderMeer’s Novel Finch 2009
artoparts commented on the word prescience
See: clairvoyance
October 12, 2008
mohitanand commented on the word prescience
the power to foresee the future
Baxter's warnings about investing in technology stocks seemed like an act of prescience after the whole market declined significantly.
October 12, 2016