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  1. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishPRESCIENCE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    PRESCIENCE definition: 1. the ability to know or correctly suggest what will happen in the future: 2. the ability to know…. Learn more.

  2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › presciencePrescience Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of PRESCIENCE is foreknowledge of events. How to use prescience in a sentence. Did you know?

  3. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › presciencePrescience - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    The word prescience might look like pre + science, but it really comes from the Latin word praescientia, which means "fore-knowledge" — or knowledge you know before anyone else. Don't assume it's a crystal ball kind of power that lets someone with prescience see the future.

  4. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › us › definitionprescience noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

    noun. /ˈpresiəns/. /ˈpreʃns/. [uncountable] (formal) the quality of knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen. She showed great prescience in selling her shares just before the market crashed.

  5. www.britannica.com › dictionary › presciencePrescience Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

    PRESCIENCE meaning: the ability to know what will or might happen in the future foresight

  6. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishPRESCIENCE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    prescience in British English. (ˈprɛsɪəns ) noun. knowledge of events before they take place; foreknowledge. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. prescient (ˈprescient) adjective.

  7. www.oed.com › dictionary › prescience_nprescience, n. meanings, etymology and more - Oxford English...

    The earliest known use of the noun prescience is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for prescience is from around 1384, in Bible (Wycliffite, early version).