Definition of "prescience" [pre•sci•ence]

• Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight. (noun)

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• "In some of us, the gift of prescience is so great that it enables us to see far ahead to the new paths along which human progress will travel."
• "But such a prescience is not the cause why any thing is so or so, though in the event it certainly will be so, as the mathematician who foresees an eclipse does not thereby cause that eclipse to be."
• "Williams’ prescience is kind of stunning at times."