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prescience

[presh-uhns, -ee-uhns, pree-shuhns, -shee-uhns]

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noun

knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Late Latin praescientia foreknowledge. See pre-, science

Related forms

pre·scient, adjective

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Lewis is delighted but not surprised by her own prescience.

Investigators will try to find out who it was that showed such sinister prescience.

Prescience about a disaster doesn't make dealing with its consequences any easier.

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Lewis is delighted but not surprised by her own prescience.

Investigators will try to find out who it was that showed such sinister prescience.

Prescience about a disaster doesn't make dealing with its consequences any easier.

His prescience was aided by the police and fire department shortwave radios he installed near his bed.

Starting a new exchange does not give a country's population any prescience about market movements.

Yet the solo records have a sense of prescience to them.

He was a writer of towering vision, prescience and existential cool.

It is hard to argue with the idea that this is a problem that could only have been prevented through prescience.

Admiration for the past mingles with prescience of the future.

But there is terrific prescience to be found in its portrait of times past.

His prescience about the overall situation is nothing less than astonishing.

Nothing solidifies the reputation of a spy novelist so much as prescience.

Then whatever else today's audiences might make of it, they'd have to salute his uncanny prescience.

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Prescience seems shockingly easy for those with nothing in the game.

Investors who had the prescience to buy call options on gold before the market made its move, he said, are now sitting pretty.

There are certainly trifles here, but there are also works of outstanding freshness and prescience.

It lays out the framework of the park as it exists today with a prescience that few master plans achieve.

Livingston's prescience when it come to popular music.

He's a particular child whose loneliness and prescience about doom give his mind a special alertness.

Many are pulling the movie out of the archives lately because of its prescience on the perils of trusting bankers.

Rage at social injustice is infinitely preferable to claims of drug-induced prescience and visionary.

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prescience (ˈprɛsɪəns)

—n
	knowledge of events before they take place; foreknowledge

[C14: from Latin praescīre to foreknow, from prae before + scīre to know]

'prescient

—*adj*

'presciently

—*adv*

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prescience

late 14c., from L.L. praescientia "fore-knowledge," from *praescientem, prp. of *praescire "to know in advance," from L. prae- "before" + scire "to know" (see science).

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"Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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