Need another word that means the same as “providence”? Find 23 synonyms and 30 related words for “providence” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Providence” are: capital of rhode island, fate, destiny, nemesis, kismet, god's will, divine intervention, predestination, predetermination, prudence, foresight, forethought, judgement, judiciousness, shrewdness, circumspection, wisdom, sagacity, common sense, precaution, caution, care, carefulness
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “providence” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| capital of rhode island | A seat of government. |
| care | The provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something. He wrote the manual on car care. |
| carefulness | The quality of being careful and painstaking. I admired the carefulness of his work. |
| caution | The trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger. You re a caution you are she said. |
| circumspection | Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress. Circumspection is required in the day to day exercise of administrative powers. |
| common sense | A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area. |
| destiny | The hidden power believed to control future events; fate. She was unable to control her own destiny. |
| divine intervention | A clergyman or other person in religious orders. |
| fate | The course of someone’s life, or the outcome of a situation for someone or something, seen as outside their control. The guards led her to her fate. |
| foresight | Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing. He had the foresight to check that his escape route was clear. |
| forethought | Planning or plotting in advance of acting. Jim had the forethought to book in advance. |
| god's will | A legal document declaring a person’s wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die. |
| judgement | The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations. That is not in my judgement the end of the matter. |
| judiciousness | Good judgment. |
| kismet | The will of Allah. What chance did I stand against kismet. |
| nemesis | The inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall. Will Harry Potter finally defeat his nemesis Voldemort. |
| precaution | A precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. He put an ice pack on the injury as a precaution. |
| predestination | Being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind. |
| predetermination | (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind. He entered the argument with a predetermination to prove me wrong. |
| prudence | Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress. We need to exercise prudence in such important matters. |
| sagacity | The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating. A man of great political sagacity. |
| shrewdness | The quality of having or showing good powers of judgement. He is a man of some tactical shrewdness. |
| wisdom | An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC. Listen to his words of wisdom. |
| borough | Each of five divisions of New York City. |
| city | A town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral. Ancient Troy was a great city. |
| constituency | An area whose voters elect a representative to a legislative body. A parliamentary candidate in the Hampstead and Highgate constituency. |
| county | A sporting team playing for a county. Administration at county level. |
| district | A division of a county or region that elects its own councillors. An elegant shopping district. |
| divine | Resulting from divine providence. Divine guidance. |
| domestic | Converted or adapted to domestic use. Domesticated plants like maize. |
| downtown | In or into a downtown area. A downtown bar. |
| enfranchise | Give (a town) the right to be represented in Parliament. Slaves were enfranchised in the mid 19th century. |
| farsighted | Planning prudently for the future. Large goals that required farsighted policies. |
| lake | A pool of liquid. The EU wine lake. |
| limerick | A humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme aabba. |
| local | A local branch of an organization especially a trade union. A local infection. |
| locality | A surrounding or nearby region. A working class locality. |
| metropolitan | Relating to or denoting a metropolitan or his see. A metropolitan bishop. |
| miraculous | Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention. A miraculous cure. |
| municipal | Relating or belonging to or characteristic of a municipality. International law only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law. |
| neighborhood | The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of. An ethnic neighborhood. |
| plan | Make a design of plan out in systematic often graphic form. The plans for City Hall were on file. |
| populous | Having a large population; densely populated. The populous city of Shanghai. |
| prospective | Likely to happen at a future date. She showed a prospective buyer around the house. |
| provincial | An inhabitant of a province of a country or empire. The general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials. |
| quarter | Display different coats of arms in quarters of a shield especially to show arms inherited from heiresses who have married into the bearer s family. He dropped a word in the right quarter. |
| subdivide | Divide into smaller and smaller pieces. This apartment cannot be subdivided any further. |
| superhuman | Above or beyond the human or demanding more than human power or endurance. Superhuman strength. |
| town | The particular town under consideration especially one s own town. Churchill was in town. |
| urban | In, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city. An urban comedy. |
| ward | The grooves in the bit of a key that correspond to the wards in a lock. I saw them keeping ward at one of those huge gates. |
| welsh | Fail to honour (a debt or obligation incurred through a promise or agreement. Banks began welshing on their agreement not to convert dollar reserves into gold. |
| will | Pronounced stressing will indicating annoyance about the habitual behaviour described. You will regret it when you are older. |
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