Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Spring Prescience

pre·scient
/ˈpreSH(ē)ənt/
adjective
adjective: prescient

having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
"a prescient warning"
synonyms: prophetic, predictive, visionary; More
psychic, clairvoyant;
far-seeing, far-sighted, with foresight, prognostic, divinatory, oracular, sibylline, apocalyptic, fateful, revelatory;
insightful, intuitive, perceptive, percipient;
rareforeknowing, previsional, vatic, mantic, vaticinal, vaticinatory, prognosticative, augural, adumbrative, fatidic, fatidical, haruspical, pythonic
"much of what happened was predicted in Leonard's prescient article"

Origin
prescience noun
pre·​science | \ ˈpre-sh(ē-)ən(t)s
, ˈprē-, -s(ē-)ən(t)s\
Definition of prescience

: foreknowledge of events:
a : divine omniscience
b : human anticipation of the course of events : foresight

Synonyms for prescience

Synonyms

foreknowledge, foresight
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Did You Know?

If you know the origin of "science," you already know half the story of "prescience." "Science" comes from the Latin verb scire, which means "to know" and which is the source of many English words ("conscience," "conscious," and "omniscience," just to name a few). "Prescience" comes from the Latin verb praescire, which means "to know beforehand." "Praescire" joins the verb "scire" with the prefix prae-, a predecessor of "pre-." A lesser-known "scire"-derived word is "nescience." Nescience means "ignorance" and comes from "scire" plus "ne-," which means "not" in Latin.
Examples of prescience in a Sentence
He predicted their response with amazing prescience. Her prescience as an investor is impressive.

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