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What is the difference between foresight and prescience?

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Prescience is a synonym of foresight.



As nouns the difference between foresight and prescience

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while prescience is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

foresight

English

Noun

(-)
  • The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
    • Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
  • the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
  • (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

    • Synonyms

    * (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

    Antonyms

    * hindsight

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * foresee * backsight

    Anagrams

    * English abstract nouns

    prescience

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
    • God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. (Jonathan Edwards)