Prescience (Noun)
Meaning
The power to foresee the future.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Her eerie feeling of impending doom turned out to be more than just intuition, it was prescience.
- The sci-fi author's novels were uncanny in their prescience, predicting many technological advancements years before they occurred.
- Many historians believe that the Mayans' sophisticated understanding of astronomy gave them prescience of future celestial events.
- Some claimed that the oracle possessed prescience, but most believed she was simply skilled at making ambiguous statements.
- In retrospect, her decision to buy stocks in renewable energy showed remarkable prescience, as the market began to boom a decade later.