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Presage vs. Prescient — What's the Difference?

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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