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PRESCIENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prescient mean?
• PRESCIENT (adjective)
The adjective PRESCIENT has 1 sense:
1. perceiving the significance of events before they occur
Familiarity information: PRESCIENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perceiving the significance of events before they occur
Context example:
extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations
Similar:
discerning (having or revealing keen insight and good judgment)
Derivation:
prescience (the power to foresee the future)
Context examples
Also, thanks to a twelfth house packed with planets, you will be quite prescient about events that are swirling around you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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