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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