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prescience

Noun

Meaning

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A little prescience goes a long way, especially in a galaxy as disorganized as this one. Robert Sheckley

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. John Burns

One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings. Flann O'Brien

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly. Leonardo da Vinci

Although he becomes physically blind, his prescience allows him to "see" by tightly locking in reality with his prescient visions. Source: Internet

Because of the way oracles interfere with one another's prescience, the Guild Navigator Edric is able to shield the conspiracy from Paul's visions of the future. Source: Internet

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