different between prescient vs omniscience

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)

Translations

References

Further reading

• foreknowledge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin omniscientia (“all-knowledge”), from Latin omni- (“all”), and scient from the Latin scientia (“knowledge”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?n???ns/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?n???ns/

Noun

omniscience (countable and uncountable, plural omnisciences)

1. The capacity to know everything.
   • 1848,, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 15:

     If, a few pages back, the present writer claimed the privilege of peeping into Miss Amelia Sedley's bedroom, and understanding with the omniscience the novelist all the gentle pains and passions which were tossing upon that innocent pillow, why should he not declare himself to be Rebecca's confidante too, master of her secrets, and seal-keeper of that young woman's conscience?

   Many people believe in God's omniscience.

Related terms

• omniscient

Translations

Further reading

• omniscience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• omniscience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• omniscience at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “omniscience”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Etymology

Medieval Latin omniscientia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m.ni.sj??s/
• Homophone: omnisciences
• Hyphenation: om?ni?science

Noun

omniscience f (plural omnisciences)

1. omniscience

Further reading

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