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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.
If you can see into the future, then you have prescience. 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.
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.
PRESCIENCE meaning: the ability to know what will or might happen in the future foresight
Definition of prescience noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Headlam comes across as an acerbic yet perceptive and sometimes prescient commentator. From the Cambridge English Corpus. Combe is left extremely prescient in reacting to an industrial revolution which was barely perceptible, and rationalizing a set of capitalist relations which had not yet emerged.
Prescience definition: knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.. See examples of PRESCIENCE used in a sentence.
