Prescience (noun)

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Definition of prescience

Definition: Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

Related words: prescient (adjective); presciently (adverb).

Synonyms: foresight; foreknowledge; divination; clairvoyance; premonition; presentiment; omniscience; presage.

Famous uses of prescience in a sentence

“He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.” — Frank Herbert, Dune

“There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.” — Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing

“All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.” — Samuel Johnson, The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776

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  • Dave Rushton says:

    Relinquishing prescience vastly improved my life.

  • Sébastien Hélary says:

    The science of prescience is predestined to be the scientific precursor of precise nothingness.

  • Ben Gilker says:

    Prescience is folly when we are doomed to repeat the past

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