prescient
2 synonyms for prescient, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Adj — Able to know, or seem to correctly guess, what will happen before it does.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
A learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), the present participle of Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (a prefix meaning ‘before; in front’, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-, “before; in front”) and sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”, ultimatel...
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