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prescience

pre·sci·ence [ prshee ənss, préshee ənss, prsh'nss ]


noun 
Definition:
 
advance knowledge of things: knowledge of actions or events before they happen

[14th century. Via French< late Latin praescientia "foreknowledge" < Latin praescient- (see prescient)]
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