Prescience

Word PRESCIENCE
Character 10
Hyphenation pre sci ence
Pronunciations /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/

Definitions and meanings of "Prescience"

What do we mean by prescience?

Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight. noun

Foreknowledge; previous knowledge; knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. noun

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. noun

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge. noun

The power to foresee the future noun

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight. (this definition is from dictionary.com) Urban Dictionary

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The word "prescience" in example sentences

In some of us, the gift of prescience is so great that it enables us to see far ahead to the new paths along which human progress will travel. ❋ Unknown (1903)

But such a prescience is not the cause why any thing is so or so, though in the event it certainly will be so, as the mathematician who foresees an eclipse does not thereby cause that eclipse to be. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Williams’ prescience is kind of stunning at times. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The discovery of the possibility of transmitting power by a wire, and converting it again into mechanical energy, is a strange story of the human blindness that almost always attends an acuteness, a thinking power, a prescience, that is the characteristic of humanity alone, but which so often stops short of results. ❋ James W. Steele (N/A)

Above all, that additional sense which may be defined as prescience, and, which was a development of the other five, was alive within him, ready to warn him of a hostile presence. ❋ Unknown (1890)

He gets credit for the Panama Canal Treaty, the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, advocacy of human rights, and for "prescience" in warning Americans about the economic and political consequences of their addiction to oil. ❋ Glenn C. Altschuler (2010)

If people did have that kind of prescience, they should play the stock market instead and become so rich that who is in office would not matter to them anymore. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps, he's been reading too many of his on-line admirers "prescience" comments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If the detective had a memory, it was of a peculiar kind that allowed him to absorb his prior experiences to such an extent and so densely that it almost qualified as a kind of prescience: an instinct lodged in the hindbrain, it allowed him to extrapolate from clues toward final solutions, but did not afford him the luxury of his own memories. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But his significance seems largely due to the "prescience" with which many critics and historians credit him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm not claiming any kind of prescience here; this has all been obvious for a while. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Second, I've been hearing some aggressive announcements from that very team that appear to be evidence of a coming transformation of Washington - that appear to be demonstrate the very kind of prescience and foresight that I think must define an Obama Presidency. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I urge you in the strongest terms not to go into any business where the understanding of facts or any kind of prescience is required. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

And for that matter, the president in the Oval Office doesn't have the kind of prescience to know what's going to happen in a few days. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In these days there was a kind of prescience at the Internal ❋ Unknown (2004)

Flint's heart faltered as a derro struck at her back; she sensed the attack with some kind of prescience and whirled to cut the leering Theiwar down. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

I'm not claiming that any kind of prescience about the future is at work here, but there is something in the driven and compulsive nature of this obsession that is unusual, something in the unconscious saying, This is how you escape. ❋ Sting (2003)

These were not crude men, but rather calculated thinkers with the kind of prescience that allowed them audacious leaps of deduction that went beyond mere canny business sense. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1990)

The woman showed prescience by [opening] the door before her friends [arrived], so they could easily [come inside]. ❋ JTPods (2003)

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