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PRESCIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The power to foresee the future
Synonyms:
prescience; prevision
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("prescience" is a kind of...):
capacity; mental ability (the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior)
Derivation:
prescient (perceiving the significance of events before they occur)