What's the difference between precognition and prescient?

Precognition


Definition:

  • (n.) Previous cognition.
  • (n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A pursuit tracking task was carried out to investigate the effects of combinations of sine waves on the development of precognitive mode, which is defined as open-loop mode with little feedback.
  • (2) It was not surprising, therefore, that when Bem last year published the results of a series of nine experiments appearing to suggest that precognition – or the ability to "feel the future" – is real, the story received a great deal of coverage from mainstream science media around the world.
  • (3) Absorption correlated positively with dream recall, ability to dream on a chosen topic, reports of conflict resolution in dreams, creative ideas occurring in dreams, amount of color in dreams, pleasantness of dreams, bizarreness of dreams, flying dreams and precognitive dreams.
  • (4) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
  • (5) On this basis a hypothesis is elaborated meaning that autistic people would have the instinctive precognition of the creatures of the same species fulfilled not by such creatures (imprinting), but by partial aspects of them, regarding sensory stimuli that they produce.
  • (6) Reporters of out-of-body experiences showed significantly greater belief in precognition, psi, spiritualism, and witchcraft than did nonreporters.
  • (7) Speed of behavior apparently limits certain intellectual components such as fluid intelligence and the important precognitive capacity of attention.
  • (8) Thus, precognition is a sort of psychic radar, warning an individual of impending danger; dreams are a safety valve for potentially psycholytic repressions; and faith is an important element in the healing process.
  • (9) His expertise, fittingly, is what can’t be seen – sound, yes, but also everything else that sound is to the human mind: the way we orient ourselves in relation to spaces, to time, to each other; the way we communicate when language fails; the way our ears know, precognitively, when the dark room has someone lurking in it or when a stranger will be kind.
  • (10) For subjects as a whole, the strongest correlates were the frequency of dreams which they believed to be precognitive and out-of-body dreams.

Prescient


Definition:

  • (a.) Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the prescient words of a memo written in 1949 by Sir Henry Tizard, the distinguished military scientist, the trouble with Britain having the atom bomb was that it made the country blind to reality.
  • (2) The duke’s statements about business, which to our tin ears sound like simplistic platitudes of the first water, are in fact fantastically complex and prescient exercises of soft power without which our economy simply could not function.
  • (3) Most, though, opt for that dreadfully prescient quote, given a few years before he died in a Porsche with a friend, doing 90mph, and after he had shot about half his scenes for the new F&F movie.
  • (4) Indeed, his 1914 satire on the fashion for eugenic family planning ( The White Hope ) was oddly prescient.
  • (5) "There may be little point in spending many millions of pounds simply to convert an unpleasant but visible marine poison into another kind of poison that is insidious and entirely unknown in its effects," he presciently wrote.
  • (6) Artists like Duchamp were so prescient here – the idea that the piece of work is not finished until the audience comes to it and adds their own interpretation, and what the piece of art is about is the grey space in the middle.
  • (7) It ended up being a prescient move: the game got out of reach early as the Lakers scored just four points in the game's first five minutes and were already down 18 points by halftime.
  • (8) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ukip’s rise in the east of England: a world turned upside down – video He then made this prescient statement: “We have got much to sort out in the party … Policy is part of the answer.
  • (10) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
  • (11) The convergence, in such a short space of time, of the controversy surrounding the banning of "kill the boer" and the murder of Terre'Blanche is both tragic and prescient; it encapsulates the death of optimism in South Africa .
  • (12) In today’s context, at the end of a week in which Hillary Clinton has yet again found herself face-to-face with a sceptical press demanding answers about her use of a private email address while working as America’s top diplomat, her robust words almost two decades ago sound uncannily prescient.
  • (13) Picking Enotiades for the job – rather than Gaye – proved to be a prescient choice.
  • (14) Someone should point out, in these days when the constitution is so constantly and pietistically invoked, that political parties are not mentioned in the constitution, and that the prescient founders warned emphatically against them for reasons that should be clear to us now.
  • (15) Again, back in 2010, it seemed shocking; now, in the midst of a so-called rape culture, it seems horrifyingly prescient.
  • (16) Calling pensions a "broken market", McClymont presciently predicted that the government would never stand up to this greatest of vested interests.
  • (17) One slogan, however, was to prove particularly prescient: 'When the Chinese people get angry, the result is always big trouble.'
  • (18) With the benefit of nearly 250 days of hindsight, Mariano Rajoy’s words a few hours after Spain’s most significant election since its return to democracy appear utterly prescient – if a little on the optimistic side.
  • (19) The big society revolution, he warned presciently, "would not happen by itself".
  • (20) Given that the current US president disputes the hard evidence of climate change, I can’t think of a more prescient play for today – one which proves that 30s theatre had depth-charge impact.