prescient
Use Prescient in a sentence
ənt, ‐i adjective
having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
Related forms
pre·scient·ly, adverb
non·pre·sci·ent, adjective
non·pre·sci·ent·ly, adverb
un·pre·scient, adjective
un·pre·scient·ly, adverb
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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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Prescient
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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Word Origin & History
prescient
1620s, from Fr. prescient (15c.), from L. praescientem, prp. of praescire (see prescience).
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