prescient

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  1. adjective Of or relating to prescience.
  2. adjective Possessing prescience.

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  • If his first venture was prescient, his next may be equally ahead of its time: Szeless is now manufacturing what experts say is a state-of-the-art light-and-sound machine, the Mind Gear PR-2X. —  Omni: September 1993
  • But the position proved prescient, and now some (though not all) of the idea's old opponents are coming around. —  Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
  • That exhibition was indicative of Sharp's programme: the assemblage of artists was prescient, the work was non-commodifiable and porously bounded, and the exhibition underscored a connection with ecosystems beyond the gallery walls.
  • Her analysis has been called "prescient," "genius" and "prophetic" by major media and former government officials who recognize the insightfulness of her work nearly a decade later. —  It's Just the Coffee Talking
  • The System: I'm not prescient, and I don't know what McD is going to do. —  Mile High Report
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  1. French, from Old French, from Latin praesciēns, praescient-, present participle of praescīre, to know beforehand : prae-, pre- + scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French prescient = Portuguese Italian presciente, from Latin præscien(t-)s, present participle of præscire, know beforehand, from præ, before, + scire, know: see scient.
 

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