prescience

C2 Topic:Places & Geography

US /ˈpɹɛʃəns/ UK /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/ See IPA manual

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Meanings

1

noun
Knowledge of events before they take place.

God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents.

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Synonyms

1 noun · knowledge of events before... clairvoyance divination foreknowledge foresight precognition premonition prophecypsychicness

Word family

Related forms prescientprescientificprotoscienceprotoscientific

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

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