prescient Definition

prescience
noun

1. Foreknowledge; foresight.

Thesaurus: clairvoyance, foresight, foreknowledge, second sight, precognition, prophecy, far-sightedness, prevision, telepathy.

Derivative: prescient
adj

Having foreknowledge or foresight
Thesaurus: clairvoyant, psychic, prophetic, foresighted, telepathic, divining, mantic, farsighted, farseeing, foreknowing, perceptive, discerning, previsional, divinatory; Antonym: imperceptive, obtuse.

Etymology: 14c: from Latin praescire to know beforehand, from scire to know.