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>

Synonyms farsightedness, foresightedness, forethought, prescience, providence, vision

Related Words precaution, premeditation; discernment, discretion, insight, perception, perceptiveness, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, wisdom

Near Antonyms hindsight

Antonyms improvidence, myopia, shortsightedness