Prescient

English

Adjective

Prescient (comparative more Prescient, superlative most Prescient)

1. Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

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Alternative forms

• præscient, praescient (obsolete)

Derived terms

• presciently

Related terms

• prescience, præscience (obsolete)
• prescientific (rare)

Etymology

Template:PIE root From m. Latin, Template:Glossary Template:Glossary of) Template:Der, from m. Latin (ultimately from Template:Der) + m. Latin (ultimately from Template:Der). The word is cognate with Template:Cog (modern Template:Cog), Template:Cog.

Translations

exhibiting or possessing prescience

Chinese: Mandarin: [[預知的#Mandarin|預知的]] [[:zh:預知的|(cmn)]], [[预知的#Mandarin|预知的]] [[:zh:预知的|(cmn)]] (yùzhīde) Czech: jasnozřivý (cs) Finnish: laajanäköinen (fi) French: prescient (fr) m., presciente (fr) f.

German: hellsichtig (de), vorausschauend (de), vorausahnend (de), vorherwissend (de) Greek: Ancient: προγνωστικός (grc) Italian: presciente (it) Latin: praescius (la) Spanish: presciente (es)