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- pronunciation:
- pre
shi
ns
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pre
shns
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pri
shi
ns
[or]
pri
shns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
part of speech: |
noun |
definition: |
knowledge of future occurrences; foreknowledge.
Witnessing the beating of the old man filled her with a dreadful prescience of monstrous events to come.- similar words:
- vision
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related words: |
anticipation, foreboding, prophecy |
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derivations: |
prescient (adj.), presciently (adv.) |
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