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PRESCIENT
prescient
(adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur; “extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations”-R.H.Rovere
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
prescient (comparative more prescient, superlative most prescient)
Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place. [from early 17th c.]
Synonyms: clairvoyant, foreknowing, foreseeing, prescious (obsolete), prescientific (rare), prevoyant
Antonym: unforeseeing
Anagrams
• 'prentices, in respect, inspecter, prentices, reinspect
Source: Wiktionary
Presci*ent, a. Etym: [L. praesciens, -entis, p. pr. of praescire to foreknow; prae before + scire to know: cf. F. prescient. See Science.]
Definition: Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand. Pope. Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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