prescience
noun
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If you know the origin of science you already know half the story of prescience. Science comes from the Latin verb sciō, scīre, "to know," also source of such words as conscience, conscious, and omniscience. Prescience has as its ancestor a word that attached prae-, a predecessor of pre-, to this root to make praescire, meaning "to know beforehand."
Examples of prescience in a Sentence
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
Instead, the Kremlin has been blaming a warped combination of Western prescience, and Ukrainian assistance.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
And a film that felt at once hopeful and foreboding now takes on a dreadful prescience.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2024
Its true prescience, though, lay in its ambivalence.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2024
Melange also conveys a kind of prescience and makes faster-than-light travel practical.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2023
Maria Rizzo plays Evelyn Nesbit with a winking variety of prescience: A showgirl at the center of a notorious scandal of the time, her tease of an Evelyn foretells an era of celebrities famous for being famous.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
After Currie caught the market’s attention with his prescience on oil’s surge to triple digits in the 2000s, his Goldman team famously doubled down in May 2008.
—Sridhar Natarajan, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2023
For all his apparent prescience about the Iraq war and his warnings that any permanent Middle East peace agreement would depend on Israel’s acceptance of a Palestinian state, Mr. Viorst’s vision of the Six-Day War’s impact remains unfulfilled.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2022
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“Prescience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prescience. Accessed 3 Jun. 2024.
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