Sample sentences for PRESCIENT

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Definition

knowing (or at least expecting) what will happen before it happens

She is prescient in her political predictions.

prescient = knowing what will happen before it happens

He knew what this essence could do to him—the spice change that pushed his mind into prescient awareness.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

prescient = knowing what will happen before it happens

Palmgren had delivered a prescient analysis.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
Hare's strange prescience of the fatality that overshadowed these men had received its first verification in the sudden taking off of Snap Naab.
Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
It was a prescient worry.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
But it was their presence as well as their prescience that made for whatever progress we have made.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
"My visitor was a prescient I had known when I was a student here," she continued.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
One by one, million by million, in the prescience of dawn, every leaf in that part of the world was moved.
James Agee -- A Death in the Family
Yet, with her prescience, she was aware of dooms and sorrows outside her lover's purview.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
"I am a half-prescient," said the man, gesturing casually at the white eye that Max found so unsettling.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
We're hoping he might be able to use his prescience to foresee its full capabilities.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Was Eisenstein being prescient about nuclear menace or about Japanese cinema?
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Exactly one week later, Gallagher's if they caught you would turn out to be all too prescient.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
Political insiders knew him to be a shrewd negotiator and a prescient political mind.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
I trust Sukeena so much in these matters-she has a prescience for anticipating the unexpected.
Stephen King -- Rose Red
I know very little of prescience, but Varga's been right more often than not.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
He had an uncanny prescience, as if he lived twenty seconds ahead of himself, seeing the coming trap along the rail or the route to the outside.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
I suppose I had some hazy prescience of that eventuality being in the air.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
What if she'd been a prescient enough mother to keep her daughter home from school today?
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
He stared at Esta oddly, quite proud of his prescience in this case.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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