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Prognostication vs Prescience - What's the difference?

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Prognostication is a related term of prescience.


As nouns the difference between prognostication and prescience

is that prognostication is a statement about or prior knowledge of the future while prescience is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

prognostication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
  • * 1837 , The Dublin University Magazine
    • She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications , but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.

    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)