prescience.
Knowledge of events before they take place.
Meaning & usage
Knowledge of events before they take place. Such knowledge that is supernatural or paranormal in nature, including the prediction of things that nobody could have known by the ordinary senses.
Knowledge of events before they take place. Such knowledge that comes from wise and thorough forethought (for example, careful planning).
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.
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