Word of the Day
: June 21, 2022prescience
playWhat It Means
Prescience is the ability to see or anticipate what will or might happen in the future.
// Stacy had the prescience to know that the stock’s value wasn’t going to remain high forever, and she managed to sell it just before it started to decrease.
prescience in Context
"As the author of some of the most searing indictments of the damage governments and people can do, George Orwell has become synonymous with the kind of prescience most artists only dream of." — Clarke Reader, The Elbert County News (Kiowa, Colorado), 16 Mar. 2022
Did You Know?
If you know the origin of science you already know half the story of prescience. Science comes from the Latin verb sciō, scīre, "to know," also source of such words as conscience, conscious, and omniscience. Prescience has as its ancestor a word that attached prae-, a predecessor of pre-, to this root to make praescire, meaning "to know beforehand."
Test Your Vocabulary with M-W Quizzes
Quiz
Fill in the blanks to complete a word that can be used to mean "something that foreshadows a future event": har _ _ nge _.
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