prescience

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Knowledge of events before they take place.
Such knowledge that is supernatural or paranormal in nature, including the prediction of things that nobody could have known by the ordinary senses.
Such knowledge that comes from wise and thorough forethought (for example, careful planning).

Pronunciation

/ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prescience.wav /ˈpɹɛʃəns/ /ˈpɹɛsi.əns/ /ˈpɹɛʃiəns/ /ˈpɹi-/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Schützenpanzer-prescience-US2.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Schützenpanzer-prescience.wav

Word forms

prescience presciences præscience

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

Synonyms

precognition foresight foreknowledge clairvoyance premonition divination prophecy psychicness forethought

Related words

prescient prescientific protoscience protoscientific

Translations

Bulgarian: предвиждане Bulgarian: далновидност Chinese Cantonese: 先見之明 /先见之明 Czech: jasnozřivost Danish: klarsyn Finnish: etukäteistieto French: prescience Galician: presciencia Italian: preveggenza Māori: matakite Norwegian: klarsyn Norwegian: framsyn Portuguese: presciência Russian: предви́дение Spanish: presciencia Welsh: rhagwybodaeth

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