Presage vs. Prescient — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Presage and Prescient
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Presage
An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
Prescient
Of or relating to prescience.
Presage
A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
Prescient
Possessing prescience.
Presage
Prophetic significance or meaning.
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Prescient
Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
Presage
(Archaic) A prediction.
Prescient
Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event.
Presage
To indicate or warn of in advance; portend.
Prescient
Perceiving the significance of events before they occur;
Extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations
Presage
To have a presentiment of.
Presage
To foretell or predict.
Presage
To make or utter a prediction.
Presage
A warning of a future event; an omen.
Presage
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
Presage
(transitive) To predict or foretell something.
Presage
(intransitive) To make a prediction.
Presage
(transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Presage
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
If there be aught of presage in the mind.
Presage
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage
To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
Presage
To form or utter a prediction; - sometimes used with of.
Presage
A foreboding about what is about to happen
Presage
A sign of something about to happen;
He looked for an omen before going into battle
Presage
Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news
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