prescience.

Knowledge or apparent understanding of events before they occur.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• remarkable prescience
• political prescience
• show prescience

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Her prescience became clear when the market changed.

The prophecy displayed unsettling prescience.

He showed prescience in preparing for the shortage.

Usage notes

Primary category: fantasy. Forms: Mass noun. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.