prescient

a. 预知的, 有先见之明的

发音

UK /ˈpɹɛsiənt/
UK /ˈpɹiːʃiənt/
US /ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/
US /ˈpɹiːʃ(i)ənt/
US /ˈpɹɛsiənt/

词形变化

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别名

præscient praescient

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

    预知的

词汇关系

形容词

近义相关 1

discerning

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).

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