Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prescience

/ˈpɹɛʃəns/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables: pre-science
IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃəns/

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Knowledge of events before they take place.

Uncountable

noun

Knowledge of events before they take place.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents"
"O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd, The book of fate so slowly given, I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'd From man the prescience of heaven."
"Near-synonym: forethought"
"With prescience, the Barlows designed them to withstand a third more weight than they would be expected to bear in normal conditions - future proofing the bridge for the weight of trains we see using it today."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *skey-, prescience, praescientia

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈpɹɛʃəns/
British English: /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

presciences (plural) præscience (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

prescient prescientific protoscience protoscientific foretelling

Synonyms

precognition foresight foreknowledge clairvoyance premonition divination prophecy psychicness forethought

Questions

How do you pronounce prescience?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɹɛʃəns/.
What does prescience mean?: Knowledge of events before they take place.
Where does prescience come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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