prescience (C1)

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈprɛʃəns/

Definition

The ability to know or predict what will happen in the future.

Examples

• With remarkable prescience, the investor sold his stocks just before the market crashed.

• Her prescience about the company's future success proved accurate.

• The novel's ending was foreshadowed with a chilling prescience.

Synonyms of prescience

Words with a similar meaning to prescience:

• foresight
• foreknowledge
• clairvoyance

Antonyms of prescience

Words with the opposite meaning to prescience:

• hindsight
• ignorance

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