prescient

Meaning

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

Opposite of

unforeseeing

Synonyms

adumbrative

clear-sighted

far-seeing

farsighted

fateful

forehanded

foresighted

omniscient

perceptive

prognostic

prophetical

provident

previsional

Translations

prescient

presciente

presciente

προβλεπτικός

προγνωρίζων

prévoyant

lungimirante

vooruitziend

visionário

تنبّؤي

önceden bilen

voraussehend

vorherwissend

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɹɛsiənt/

Etymology

Cognate with Middle French: prescient

Cognate with French: prescient

Cognate with Italian: presciente

In summary

Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”).