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prescience::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | prevision |
| Type of | capacity, mental ability |
| Derivation | prescient |
Examples of prescience
prescience
Even as he wins plaudits for his prescience, Roubini, 50, says worse lies ahead.
From the bloomberg.com
Wildavsky argued that resilience was sometimes a greater virtue than prescience.
From the economist.com
His prescience paid off when oil prices started to skyrocket at the end of 1973.
From the time.com
Because I'm no progressive, I have neither powers of prescience or clairvoyance.
From the swampland.time.com
Real life rarely offers such prescience, even from the people paid to deliver it.
From the time.com
Unless you had the prescience to go to cash a year ago, it's going to be ugly.
From the foxbusiness.com
Perhaps we can add prescience to evolutions seemingly endless bag on magic tricks.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
Investigators will try to find out who it was that showed such sinister prescience.
From the economist.com
Proving that in this case, provenance-and prescience-can be quite lucrative.
From the newsweek.com
- The power to foresee the future
- (prescient) perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
- (presciently) with foresight; "more presciently than they superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation"
- (Presciently) The fallacy of prescience is a term used by Smith, DeShaye and Stoicheff to describe an erroneous exploratory research technique in which the experimental scaffolding embeds assumptions about what will be discovered. ...
- Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge
- (prescient) to have foreknowlege of events
- The talent of prophecy. Foreknowledge.
