prescience
knowledge of events before they happen
Roots
- pre-: before, earlier, or in front
- sci / scire: know, understand, or be aware
Other words with the sci / scire root
- conscience: inner sense of right and wrong
- conscientious: careful and guided by duty or conscience
- conscious: awake or aware
- prescient: seeming to know what will happen before it does
- science: organized knowledge tested by observation
Prescience is before-knowledge: the eerie sense that someone knew what was coming.
The analyst's prescience looked obvious only after the crisis arrived.