Synonyms for prescience

Grammar : Noun

Spell : presh-uh ns, -ee-uh ns, pree-shuh ns, -shee-uh ns

Phonetic Transcription : ˈprɛʃ əns, -i əns, ˈpri ʃəns, -ʃi əns

Définition of prescience

Origin : late 14c., from Old French prescience (13c.) and directly from Late Latin praescientia "fore-knowledge," from *praescientem, present participle of *praescire "to know in advance," from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + scire "to know" (see science).

noun foresight

Example sentences :

Take, for example, the prescience of a skilled business man.
Extract from : « Understanding the Scriptures » by Francis McConnell

We marvel that we had no prescience of these, and that we did not attain to them sooner.
Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro

In what does the prescience of love differ from inspiration?
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 » by Various

He would meet her again; a touch of prescience told him this.
Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath

Before my son's return I foresaw it, with the prescience of maternal love.
Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz

She assured him that he had prescience, and several other powers as well.
Extract from : « Out Like a Light » by Gordon Randall Garrett

What prescience does all this imply—prescience no where to be found but in God!
Extract from : « Museum of Antiquity » by L. W. Yaggy

Isabel, with that prescience she had about the minds of people, knew what it meant.
Extract from : « Country Neighbors » by Alice Brown

Could I but see him, warn him, for my prescience tells me he will attempt this thing again.
Extract from : « Saronia » by Richard Short

She went upstairs, her heart light, not so much from reality as from prescience.
Extract from : « At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern » by Myrtle Reed

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