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PRESCIENCE definition: 1. the ability to know or correctly suggest what will happen in the future: 2. the ability to know…. Learn more.
Prescience is the ability to know something before it happens, either by divine or human foresight. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples, and word history of prescience from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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.
Prescience is the quality of knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen. Learn how to use this formal word with pronunciation, pictures and example sentences.
Prescience is a formal word for the ability to know what will or might happen in the future. Learn how to use it in a sentence and see examples of prescience in different contexts.
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.
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).
