prescience
prescience
Definition
pres·cience (pres̸h′əns, -ē əns; prē′s̸həns, -s̸hē əns)
prescience
Synonyms
prescience
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: Brown had the prescience to realize that the public places greater trust in bankers to look after their money, than politicians.
- show: In casting an eye to the future, Timeslip often showed remarkable prescience in its choice of themes.
- claim: Tim In light of the subsequent conversation, I claim prescience rather than glibness Prescience is the ability to predict the future through vision.
Adjective modifier
- remarkable: In casting an eye to the future, Timeslip often showed remarkable prescience in its choice of themes.
- extraordinary: Tony Blair: No, that was just the remarkable good luck of the British Presidency, with extraordinary prescience.
- divine: Few of them have been fulfilled in any sense, and those required no divine prescience to foresee the result.
- great: With great prescience Linde renamed the cellars the Phoenix Distillery, and from the ashes of one industry another emerged.
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