Prescience

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prescience \Pre"sci*ence\ (pr[=e]"sh[i^]*ens or pr[=e]"shens;
     277), n. [F. prescience, L. praescientia. See {Prescient}.]
     Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral


           agents.                                  --J. Edwards.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  prescience
       n : the power to foresee the future [syn: {prevision}]