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prescient

/ˈpɹɛsiənt/ UK
/ˈpɹiːʃiənt/ UK, dated
/ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/ US
/ˈpɹiːʃ(i)ənt/ US
/ˈpɹɛsiənt/ US, rare

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Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).

adjective more prescient · most prescient · præscient · praescient

Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place. And if the præſcient Muſes guide my Lay, / Or, future Secrets, Phœbus can diſplay, / The Day ſhall ſhine diſtinguiſh'd from the reſt, / That Anna dignify'd, and Hymen bleſt; […]
Similar: clairvoyant, foreknowing, foreseeing, prescious, prescientific, prevoyant · Opposite: unforeseeing

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adj exhibiting or possessing prescience

Español	presciente
中文	預知的 /预知的 yùzhīde
हिन्दी	दूरदर्शी dūrdarśī
Português	presciente
Français	prescient
Deutsch	hellsichtig, vorausschauend, vorausahnend, vorherwissend
Italiano	presciente
Русский	дальновидный dalʹnovidnyj

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@misc{prescient_2026,
  title = {prescient},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prescient},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}