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The synonyms of “Prescient” are: prophetic, predictive, visionary
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “prescient” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| predictive | Relating to or having the effect of predicting an event or result. Predictive typing allows you to type faster. |
| prophetic | Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention. Prophetic writings. |
| visionary | Not practical or realizable; speculative. Visionary schemes for getting rich. |
| acumen | A tapering point. She hides a shrewd business acumen. |
| clairvoyance | The supposed faculty of perceiving things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact. She stared at the card as if she could contact its writer by clairvoyance. |
| clairvoyant | Having or exhibiting clairvoyance. He didn t tell me about it and I m not clairvoyant. |
| discerning | Quick to understand- Nathaniel Hawthorne. A discerning critic. |
| discernment | The ability to judge well. An astonishing lack of discernment. |
| discriminating | Showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste. He became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts. |
| forecast | A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop. Coal consumption in Europe is forecast to increase. |
| foresight | The front sight of a gun. He had the foresight to check that his escape route was clear. |
| insight | The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation. His mind soared to previously unattainable heights of insight. |
| insightful | Exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception. The chapter is insightful and suggestive of new perspectives. |
| intelligent | Having or showing intelligence, especially of a high level. Is there intelligent life in the universe. |
| judgment | The act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event. He was reluctant to make his judgment known. |
| knowing | Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding. Today s society is too knowing too corrupt. |
| perceptive | Having or showing sensitive insight. A perceptive observation. |
| percipient | A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses. A percipient author. |
| perspicacious | Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning. Much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument. |
| perspicacity | The capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions. The perspicacity of her remarks. |
| politic | Engage in political activity. A politic old scoundrel. |
| prediction | A statement made about the future. A prediction that economic growth would resume. |
| sagacious | Skillful in statecraft or management. Observant and thoughtful he was given to asking sagacious questions. |
| sagacity | The quality of being sagacious. A man of great political sagacity. |
| sapience | Ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. |
| sapient | Wise, or attempting to appear wise. Members of the female quarter were more sapient but no less savage than the others. |
| sapiential | Characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God. I saw them as sapiential metaphors far more meaningful than their didactic pretext. |
| sensible | Aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed- Henry Hallam- E. A sensible odor. |
| smart | Intelligence; acumen. He gave the dog a smart blow. |
| tactful | Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people. A tactful remark eased her embarrassment. |
| understanding | Characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy. I knew I could count on his understanding. |
| wisdom | An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC. Some questioned the wisdom of building the dam so close to an active volcano. |
| wise | Evidencing the possession of inside information. In no wise. |
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