PRESCIENT


Meaning of PRESCIENT in English

-nt adjective

Etymology: Latin praescient-, praesciens, present participle of praescire to know beforehand, from prae- pre- + scire to know — more at science

: having or marked by prescience : having foreknowledge : characterized by foresight

prescient of what he was later to fulfill — H.O.Taylor

some extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relationships — R.H.Rovere

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