Download the app
educalingo
Search
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.
Eric Ries

Meaning of "prescient" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF PRESCIENT

prescient  [ˈprɛsɪənt] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRESCIENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prescient is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PRESCIENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fallacy of prescience

The fallacy of prescience is a term used by Smith, DeShaye and Stoicheff to describe an erroneous exploratory research technique in which the experimental scaffolding embeds assumptions about what will be discovered. The example cited describes a common practice in Humanities Computing in which an XML database and schema are designed at the outset of a research project to annotate a document as a means of discovering the structural relationships within the subject text. The fallacy, they say, arises from the fact that some inferences must be made about the structures that will be discovered in order to construct the schema that will describe them. The fallacy of prescience can be viewed as a procedural manifestation of the informal fallacy of begging the question.

Definition of prescient in the English dictionary

The definition of prescient in the dictionary is displaying knowledge of events before they take place; prophetic.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PRESCIENT


ambient
ˈæmbɪənt
asphyxiant
æsˈfɪksɪənt
Bryant
ˈbraɪənt
client
ˈklaɪənt
compliant
kəmˈplaɪənt
convenient
kənˈviːnɪənt
deforciant
dɪˈfɔːsɪənt
deviant
ˈdiːvɪənt
giant
ˈdʒaɪənt
gradient
ˈɡreɪdɪənt
ingredient
ɪnˈɡriːdɪənt
insouciant
ɪnˈsuːsɪənt
nescient
ˈnɛsɪənt
omniscient
ɒmˈnɪsɪənt
orient
ˈɔːrɪənt
radiant
ˈreɪdɪənt
recipient
rɪˈsɪpɪənt
transeunt
ˈtrænsɪənt
transient
ˈtrænzɪənt
variant
ˈvɛərɪənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRESCIENT

preschedule
preschool
preschooler
prescience
prescientific
presciently
prescind
prescindent
prescious
prescission
prescore
Prescott
prescreen
prescribe
prescribed
prescriber
prescript
prescriptibility
prescriptible
prescription

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRESCIENT

ancient
coefficient
conscient
correlation coefficient
deficient
diffusion coefficient
drag coefficient
efficient
energy-efficient
fuel-efficient
immunodeficient
inconscient
inefficient
insufficient
partition coefficient
patient
Pearson´s correlation coefficient
proficient
scient
self-sufficient
sufficient

Synonyms and antonyms of prescient in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PRESCIENT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prescient» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of prescient

Translation of «prescient» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF PRESCIENT

Find out the translation of prescient to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prescient from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prescient» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有先见之明
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prescient
570 millions of speakers

English

prescient
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूर्वद्रष्टा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عالم الغيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пророческим
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

presciente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দূরদর্শী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prescient
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prescient
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

vorausschauend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

予知能力がある
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선견지명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prescient
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thấy trước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தீர்க்கதரிசனமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पूर्वज्ञानवान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ileriyi gören
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

preveggente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przewidujący
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пророчим
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spusele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προφητικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Prescient
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prescient
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forutseende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prescient

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESCIENT»

The term «prescient» is regularly used and occupies the 83.419 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
61
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «prescient» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of prescient
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «prescient».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRESCIENT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prescient» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prescient» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prescient

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «PRESCIENT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prescient.
1
Arne Glimcher
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'
2
Eric Ries
Nowadays people talk about PayPal's founders as prescient geniuses who would inevitably change the world. It was, however, not so obvious that PayPal would taste its first major success by helping people sell Beanie Babies on eBay. But they had a vision, a hope, and the perseverance to try multiple iterations until they got it right.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESCIENT»

Discover the use of prescient in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prescient and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Justice Lionel Murphy: Influential Or Merely Prescient?
This book is a collection of scholarly papers and commentaries which range over Justice Murphy’s forays into the Constitution, his approach to the common law, and his concept of and attitude to judicial method.
Michael Coper, George Williams, 1997
2
Formal Syntax and Semantics of Java
If Assign ≤L Unlock, such that the Assign is the last one before the Unlock, then ( NP3) says that if all Stores in between are prescient but one, then this one is necessarily nonprescient if the following holds: There is no matching Store before  ...
James Alves-Foss, 1999
3
Merriam-Webster's Vocabulary Builder
For ordinary mortals such omniscience may sound attractive but would probably actually be quite a burden. prescient Ypre-shənt\ Having or showing advance knowledge of what is going to happen. ○ For years she had read The Wall Street  ...
Mary W. Cornog, 1993
4
Abstract State Machines - Theory and Applications: ...
This type of store action is called prescient, as it must be known ahead of time what the value of the assign action will be. A prescient store action differs from a normal store action in that the value it sends to the main memory is not the current ...
Yuri Gurevich, 2000
5
Know What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems ...
Many people marvel at how prescient he was at key moments in his lifetime. He seemed to see looming threats long before others did. Time after time, he tried to sound the alarm about threats to his beloved Britain, and he recommended ...
Michael A. Roberto, 2009
6
CIO
Once selected, Prescient, which named its website Cpmarket.com, worked to get agreements from all 19 members of the DIWG. (Since then Paulhac has added a few more issuers.) And while none of these issuers committed to putting a ...
7
Indian Defence Review
becüjfjfjg j ouï Defence & Operational Prescient Systems & Technologies, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics LimrtecCoffers revolutionary training and operational datalink solutions for both military and civil applications. As the ...
Bharat Verma, 2008
8
Management of Multimedia on the Internet: 4th IFIP/IEEE ...
To evaluate the performance of the adaptive algorithm, we compared the revenue generated by it to the predicted expectation as well as to the revenue generated by a prescient algorithm. The presicent algorithm has knowledge of all the ...
Ehab S. Al-Shaer, Giovanni Pacifici, 2001
9
Broker-Dealer Law and Regulation, Fourth Edition
On the basis of these and other ICC representations, the SEC staff stated that ICC could operate the system without registration as an exchange, broker-dealer, or investment adviser.80 In a related context, Prescient Markets, ...
10
Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques: 12th ...
If prescient store operations are permitted, then it would be also legal to store the value 10 for o.a in advance, i.e. before the loop is entered, excluding thereby that any other thread can load o . a before the end of the loop. The rearrangement ...
Francesco Parisi-Presicce, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESCIENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prescient is used in the context of the following news items.
1
True Detective Recap: A Smartly Done Orgy Scene
The most prescient thing Frank says in that morning breakfast table sit-down is that Ray always had the capacity to murder. (“Didn't you use that ... «Wired, Jul 15»
2
Blame higher education for America's potentially weaker military
Krulak's prediction was eerily prescient; in Iraq and Afghanistan, we would hand out candy to children on one block, on the next we were trying ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
3
New Radicals' only hit, “You Get What You Give,” was secretly …
Yet another group of prescient lines featured next on the song—a throwaway diss of musicians Beck, Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Jul 15»
4
Analyst who predicted bottom for Shanghai stocks sees further 14 …
Four months later, his call for a bottom in Chinese stocks proved prescient as the gauge hit a four-year low within days and started rising. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
5
Why I'm Not Watching the David Foster Wallace Movie: He Taught …
For those who read them in real time, Wallace's critical pieces were prescient responses to the enthusiasms and obsessions of the time—David ... «The New Republic, Jul 15»
6
Casinos and Con Men: The Hustler Origins of Wearable Computers
But his absurdly prescient achievements aren't talked about nearly as much as they should be. Dude was building and using wearable ... «Gizmodo India, Jul 15»
7
WATCH: Andrea Pirlo tells NYCFC 'keeper exactly where Kaká will …
Andrea Pirlo's passing has sometimes been referred to as "prescient." He seems to see things before they happen. Now we can safely say the ... «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
8
Jordan Matson talked about Turkish tensions with the Kurds way …
... (PKK) and Turkish forces go head-to-head against one another after just over two years of peace, Matson's words seem especially prescient. «Al-Bawaba, Jul 15»
9
Big four country boom could add US$18 trillion to world economy
"Pessimism might be prudent but it is not always prescient," he says. He says that while this boom would be positive for Australian exports, ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
10
Quinpario Partners Activist At Zoltek [Case Study]
The Zoltek play was already a no-brainer, but if that wasn't enough, Quinpario's prescient timing of the 13D filing coincided with its only other ... «ValueWalk, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Prescient [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/prescient>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z