prescience

Meanings

• noun

  The ability to know or predict future events.

  - "His prescience saved many lives by warning the villagers about the impending storm."
  - "She has a remarkable prescience when it comes to financial markets."

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Pronunciation

1. /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/
   
   
   
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Rhymes

Words rhyming with prescience
precise , advice , surprise , suprise , advice , vice

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Variants

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prescience , presciences , prescient , presciently

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Etymology

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From the Latin 'praesciens', meaning 'foreseeing' or 'knowing beforehand'.

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Trivia

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1. Prescience is not the same as premonition. Premonition refers to a specific, vivid dream or vision of a future event, while prescience is the general ability to predict the future.

2. The word 'prescience' comes from the Latin word 'praesciens', which means 'foreseeing' or 'knowing beforehand'.

3. There are many famous figures throughout history who were said to have had remarkable prescience, including Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, and Jean Dixon.

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Related Concepts

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1. Intuition: Intuition is a related concept to prescience as it also involves having a gut feeling or an inner sense about something, often without conscious reasoning.

2. Clairvoyance: Clairvoyance is a psychic ability that involves seeing future events or hidden information, which is closely related to prescience.

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Culture

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In literature, prescience is often associated with prophets, seers, and clairvoyants. In art, it can be depicted as a person with a crystal ball or a tarot reader. In music, there are songs about the power and mystery of prescience.

How to Memorize "prescience"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a crystal ball filled with swirling water. Visualize a future event unfolding in the water.
   - Visualize a person with a knowing look on their face, as if they have insider information.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'prescience' with the word 'vision'. Visualize seeing the future.
   - Associate the word 'prescience' with the word 'intuition'. Visualize having a gut feeling about something.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the acronym PRESCIENCE to remember the definition: 'P' for predict, 'R' for right, 'E' for events, 'S' for seeing, 'C' for coming, 'I' for in, 'N' for noticing, 'C' for coming, 'E' for events.

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