Associations to the word «Prescient»

Wiktionary

PRESCIENT, adjective. Having knowledge of events before they take place; possessing or exhibiting prescience.

Dictionary definition

PRESCIENT, adjective. Perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne