| 单词 | prescience |
| 释义 | prescience (once / 7548 pages) n Do you already know what happens tomorrow? Next week? Next year? If you can see into the future, then you have prescience. The word prescience might look like pre + science, but it really comes from the Latin word praescientia, which means "fore-knowledge" — or knowledge you know before anyone else. Don't assume it's a crystal ball kind of power that lets someone with prescience see the future. It's more like a state of mind or level of expertise that allows for excellent foresight and planning. WORD FAMILYprescience: presciences+/prescient: prescience, presciently USAGE EXAMPLESHe credits his working-class background as a source of his profitable prescience. Washington Times(Nov 24, 2016) Network’s most famous virtue is its extreme and eerie prescience about where the news media would go in the next decades. The Guardian(Nov 23, 2016) Google Flu Trends for instance, looked to be a triumph of big data prescience, tracking flu outbreaks based on trends in flu-related search terms. New York Times(Nov 10, 2016) n the power to foresee the future Syn|Hyper prevision capacity, mental ability the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior |
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