pre|sci|ence

pre|sci|ence
pre|sci|ence «PREE shee uhns, PREHSH ee-», noun.
knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight: »

People used to believe that animals have an instinctive prescience of the approach of danger. The day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated at Sarajevo, Mussolini, with quite a bit of prescience, remarked…that it looked like the start of a major European war (New Yorker).

[< Old French prescience, learned borrowing from Latin praescientia < Latin praesciēns, -entis, present participle of praescīre to foreknow < prae- before + scīre to know]

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