PRESCIENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perceiving the significance of events before they occur

Example:

extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

discerning (having or revealing keen insight and good judgment)

Derivation:

prescience (the power to foresee the future)

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