prescient
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- adjective
- /ˈprɛʃənt/
- Formal
- The author's prescient observations about technology's impact on society were astonishing.
- remarkably prescient
- proved prescient
- prescient warnings
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Watch on YouTubeIt was really sort of prescient on Tom Daschle's part.
- It was really sort of prescient on Tom Daschle's part.
- It is very prescient and very pertinent.
- You know, I mean, to me, the most prescient thing anybody ever said was Andy Warhol.
- And when I look at it, I see it as basically a very prescient type of photograph.
- Your last newsletter was it was so prescient, it was so far ahead, but so accurate.
- It's not, it's not like psychic, it's just being prescient.
- And so in many ways I see that it was prescient.
- And in retrospect, the title of the panel was quite prescient because it said it was entitled Remember This.
- It's it was an urgent and prescient warning that our democracy is on the edge of disaster.
- And I think it's, it's so prescient because we're in the middle of an extraordinary moment right now in terms of climate activism and awareness.
- And then, I mean, this is where it's kind of a prescient story, he says.
- This is some some very almost prescient stuff that Hegel is talking about.
- And it doesn't make me feel prescient.
- Of course, ISIS is probably the worst, but maybe the most prescient right now is Vladimir Putin.
- And the reason why it's funny is because it's prescient.
Examples
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John Quincy Adams proved to be the most prescient about the coming conflict.
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Well, he had some prescient insights, actually.
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I mean, Arrested Development, incredible show that sort of was prescient about the Trump.
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But the first is go read Snow Crash and appreciate how prescient that book was.
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In so many ways and in so much of his work, he has always been prescient.
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Your last newsletter was it was so prescient, it was so far ahead, but so accurate.
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It's it was an urgent and prescient warning that our democracy is on the edge of disaster.
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And I think it's, it's so prescient because we're in the middle of an extraordinary moment right now in terms of climate activism and awareness.
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So Jim's book Currency Wars is as prescient as it comes.
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Susan's work has been prescient over the years, often signaling ideas and approaches to come.
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Synonyms
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Showing or claiming the ability to see events before they happen
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Saying that something will happen in the future, often by a religious person
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To know about an event before it happens
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To plan ahead to meet future needs and avoid problems
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A sign that warns of something bad that may happen
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Relating to ways people try to tell the future
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Suggests or shows what will happen later in a vague, symbolic way
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Able to think about and plan for the future
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Showing or suggesting something that will happen later
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Feeling that something will happen before it does
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Morphology
prescient = prescience (semi-transparent) = pre + sci + ent
The prefix 'pre-' ('before') and the idea of 'knowing' are recoverable, but the root 'sci-' is not a standalone English word and may be unfamiliar or be confused with 'science', so the connection is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Prescient comes from the Latin parts prae- meaning 'before' and scire meaning 'to know', the same root as in science. So to be prescient is to 'know before' — to see or predict events before they happen.