• (RP) IPA: /ˈpɹɛsɪənt/, /ˈpɹiːʃɪənt/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/

prescient

1. exhibit#Verb|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, prescious, prescientific, prevoyant

   Antonyms: unforeseeing

   • 1832, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. [...] In Four Volumes, volume II (Count Robert of Paris), Edinburgh: Printed [by Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., OCLC 81177709 ↗, pages 310–311 ↗:

     It seems that human nature, when its original habits are cultivated and attended to, possesses something upon the same occasion of that prescient foreboding, which announces the approaching tempest to the inferior ranks of creation.

   • 1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25​, [William] Wilkie Collins, “The Narrative of Walter Hartright, of Clement’s Inn, London”, in The Woman in White. A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, published 1860, OCLC 558180353 ↗, part I, section IX, page 29 ↗, column 2:

     The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me for a moment with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.

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

• French: prescient, presciente
• German: hellsichtig, vorausschauend, vorausahnend, vorherwissend
• Italian: presciente
• Spanish: presciente