Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to prescience.
- adjective Possessing prescience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Foreknowing; having knowledge of events before they take place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having knowledge of events before they take place; possessing or exhibiting
prescience .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective perceiving the significance of events before they occur
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether Stephenson's vision of a totally privatized America will turn out to be equally prescient is at least one theme of Jody Freeman and Martha Minow's edited volume, Government by Contract.
David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC? David Isenberg 2010
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Whether Stephenson's vision of a totally privatized America will turn out to be equally prescient is at least one theme of Jody Freeman and Martha Minow's edited volume, Government by Contract.
David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC? David Isenberg 2010
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Buckley warned in prescient terms against what would become the Rovite heresy at the Xth Party Congress in 1976.
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He's made some bad ones, to be sure - he was notably burned by telecom companies during the dotcom bust - but over the course of a few decades of investing, Gilder has become known as a prescient technophile.
Forbes.com: News Chris Barth 2011
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Look up the word prescient, then reread the last few posts.
Think Progress 2009
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Look up the word prescient, then reread the last few posts.
Think Progress 2009
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In a groundbreaking new book that Publishers Weekly has already called "prescient" -
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In a groundbreaking new book that Publishers Weekly has already called "prescient" -
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