prescience
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əns, -i noun
knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
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| —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
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
Lewis is delighted but not surprised by her own prescience.
His prescience about the overall situation is nothing less than astonishing.
Many are pulling the movie out of the archives lately because of its prescience on the perils of trusting bankers.
He was a writer of towering vision, prescience and existential cool.
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