English-Thai Dictionary

prescience

N การ รู้ ล่วงหน้า  foresight prediction kan-ru-luang-na

 

prescience

N ความรู้ ที่ มี อยู่ ก่อน  kwam-ru-ti-me-yu-ma-kon

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRESCIENCE

n.presi'ence or pre'shens. [Low L. proescientia; proe, before, and scientia, knowledge. ] Foreknowledge; knowledge of events before they take place. Absolute prescience belongs to God only. Of things of the most accidental and mutable nature, God's prescience is certain.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRESCIENCE

Pre "sci *ence n. Etym: [F. prescience, L. praescientia. See Prescient. ]

 

Defn: Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prescience

pre science |ˈpreSH (ē )əns, ˈprē -ˈpriʃ (i )əns ˈprɛʃ (i )əns | ▶noun the fact of knowing something before it takes place; foreknowledge: with extraordinary prescience, Jung actually predicted the Nazi eruption.

 

Oxford Dictionary

prescience

pres ¦ci |ence |ˈprɛsɪəns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge: with extraordinary prescience, Jung actually predicted the Nazi eruption.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

prescience

prescience noun the uncanny prescience of children: farsightedness, foresight, foreknowledge; psychic powers, clairvoyance; prediction, prognostication, divination, prophecy, augury; insight, intuition, perception, percipience. WORD NOTE prescience What appeals to me about this word is how you can use it to describe a predictive knowledge of the future (In retrospect, Kafka's novels strike us as having an almost eerie prescience ) without sounding as if you believe in ESP, or some other such hocus-pocus. Clairvoyance and second-sightedness are obviously quite different. Perhaps that's simply because prescience has "science " embedded in it. The word, and how we use it, seems to me to imply that, without necessarily admitting it or making a big fuss, we understand that there are many occasions on which, without any rational explanation, we know what is going to happen. — FP Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

prescience

prescience noun with the uncanny prescience of children, they had divined that he was a fake: far-sightedness, foresight, foreknowledge; psychic powers, clairvoyance; prediction, prognostication, divination, prophesy, augury; insight, vision, intuition, perception, percipience; Hinduism & Buddhism third eye; rare vaticination, haruspication, pythonism, prevision, psychism, adumbration.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

prescience

pre scie nce /préʃ (ə )ns, príː -|présiəns /名詞 U 予知, 予見, 洞察, 先見の明 .