different between prescient vs predictive

English

Etymology

From praesci?ns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesci? (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh?- (“before; in front”)) + sci? (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s??nt/, (dated) /?p?i????nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p???(i)?nt/
• Hyphenation: pre?scient

Adjective

prescient (comparative more prescient, superlative most prescient)

1. Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: clairvoyant, foreknowing, foreseeing, (obsolete) prescious, (rare) prescientific, prevoyant

   Antonym: unforeseeing

Alternative forms

• præscient, praescient (obsolete)

Derived terms

• presciently

Related terms

• prescience, præscience (obsolete)
• prescientific (rare)
• prescious (obsolete)

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References

Further reading

• foreknowledge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'prentices, in respect, inspecter, prentices, reinspect

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

predictive (comparative more predictive, superlative most predictive)

1. Useful in predicting.

   The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.

2. (computing) Describing a predictor.
3. (medicine) Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.

Antonyms

• reactive

Derived terms

• predictive text

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