PRESCIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prescience mean? 

• PRESCIENCE (noun)
  The noun PRESCIENCE has 1 sense:

1. the power to foresee the future

  Familiarity information: PRESCIENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESCIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The power to foresee the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

prescience; prevision

Hypernyms ("prescience" is a kind of...):

capacity; mental ability (the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior)

Derivation:

prescient (perceiving the significance of events before they occur)

 Context examples 

How little did I then think that the very first news I should hear from Mrs. Smith, when I next came into the country, would be that Barton cottage was taken: and I felt an immediate satisfaction and interest in the event, which nothing but a kind of prescience of what happiness I should experience from it, can account for.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)