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prescience
prescience
noun
Definition of PRESCIENCE
1
the special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur <most believers would probably agree that complete prescience is one of God's attributes>
Synonyms foreknowledge, prescience
Related Words foreboding, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment; clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, sixth sense; omniscience; divination
2
concern or preparation for the future <parents who had the prescience to make everything in their house childproof before the arrival of their first baby>
Related Words precaution, premeditation; discernment, discretion, insight, perception, perceptiveness, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, wisdom
Near Antonyms hindsight
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