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Prescience is defined as the power to know something before it happens or to the ability to tell the future.

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When you predict that you will meet a tall, dark and handsome stranger in a month and you end up meeting that person, this is an example of prescience.

See prescience in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

apparent knowledge of things before they happen or come into being; foreknowledge

Origin: OFr < LL(Ec) praescientia < L praescire, to know beforehand: see pre- & science

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prescient adjective
presciently adverb

See prescience in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.

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