Usually means: Accurately predicting events before occurrence.
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  1. prescient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prescient: Merriam-Webster
  3. prescient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prescient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prescient: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. prescient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  11. Prescient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Prescient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
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  14. prescient: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Prescient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. prescient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. prescient: FreeDictionary.org
  18. prescient: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. prescient: Legal dictionary

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  1. prescient: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

Similar:
discerning, praescient, prescientific, præscient, precognitive, prescious, prevoyant, præscious, precognizant, previsive, more...

Opposite:
unforeseeable, shortsighted, myopic, unperceptive, oblivious

Types:
clairvoyant, clairaudient, claircognizant, precognitive, premonitory, prophetic, more...

Phrases:
prescient ideas, unknowingly accurate or prescient, more...

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Similar:
discerning, praescient, prescientific, præscient, precognitive, prescious, prevoyant, præscious, precognizant, previsive, more...

Opposite:
unforeseeable, shortsighted, myopic, unperceptive, oblivious

Types:
clairvoyant, clairaudient, claircognizant, precognitive, premonitory, prophetic, more...

Phrases:
prescient ideas, unknowingly accurate or prescient, more...

Colors:
    indigo,     violet,     silver,     gold,     azure, more...



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