prescience
🇬🇧 UK/'presiәns/🇺🇸 US
GREC2
Definitions
n.
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight or foreknowledge.
预知,先见之明
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedCommon Collocations
- 1.remarkable prescience非凡的先见之明
- 2.uncanny prescience惊人的预知能力
- 3.[show prescience]展现出先见之明
- 4.with prescience以先见之明
Example Sentences
- 1.
His prescience about the market crash made him a legend on Wall Street.
- 2.
With remarkable prescience, the scientist predicted the rise of artificial intelligence decades ago.
- 3.
The novel's prescience about surveillance technology feels unsettling to modern readers.