Prescience

English

Alternative forms

• præscience (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/
• (?) IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃɨns/

Etymology

From French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

Noun

Prescience (plural Presciences)

1. Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

   God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards

Translations

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge

Finnish: etukäteistieto French: prescience (fr)

Norwegian: klarsyn (no) n., framsyn (no) Spanish: presciencia (es) f.

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