adj

prescient

Prescient (adj) means exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

adj

Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).

Rhymes for prescient

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What is the meaning of prescient?

"prescient" (adj) means exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.