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Prescience vs Proscience - What's the difference?

prescience | proscience |

As a noun prescience

is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

As an adjective proscience is

in favour of science or its methods or the scientific establishment.

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)

    proscience

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In favour of science or its methods or the scientific establishment.