different between prescience vs clairvoyance

English

Alternative forms

• præscience (archaic)

Etymology

From French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s?.?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p????ns/

Noun

prescience (usually uncountable, plural presciences)

1. Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency

     God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French clairvoyance.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kl???v???ns/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kl???v???ns/

Noun

clairvoyance (usually uncountable, plural clairvoyances)

1. (parapsychology) The power to see the future.

Hyponyms

• clairaudience
• metagnomy
• precognition
• psychometry
• second sight

Related terms

• clairvoyant

Translations

See also

• claircognizance
• clairsentience

Anagrams

• ovarian cycle

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl??.vwa.j??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

clairvoyance f (plural clairvoyances)

1. clairvoyance

Further reading

• “clairvoyance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).