Prescience is defined as the power to know something before it happens or to the ability to tell the future.
(noun)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
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Origin: OFr < LL(Ec) praescientia < L praescire, to know beforehand: see pre- & science
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