Meaning & use
prescience
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knowledge of events before they happen; foresight.
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Her prescience about the market crash saved the company millions.
The novel's eerie prescience about technology surprised later readers.
A note on using this word
Prescience suggests an almost uncanny ability to foresee events, often used to praise someone's judgment or a work's surprising accuracy in hindsight.
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