foreknowledge

noun

Definition of foreknowledgenext
as in foresight
the special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur a suspenseful story about a man who has a frightening foreknowledge of disasters

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  1. foresight
  2. prescience
  3. divination
Noun
  • Industry experts say Taiwan grew its own semiconductor industry organically through a combination of foresight, hard work and investment.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Look on the sunny side of life — endless opportunities to flourish based on skill, foresight, industry, and ambition.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of foresight
Noun
  • What Houellebecq does get credit for is prescience.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Unusual prescience on her part or an authorial intrusion from the vantage of our less orderly world?
    Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of prescience
Noun
  • Advertisement Judging from the torrent of polling divinations, spirited debate and reportage dedicated to the potential ballot choices of our sons, brothers, husbands and uncles, women’s voting trends must be stagnant or just simpler, right?
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
  • So yellow is yellow was was air and Lilia divination trial, and orange was Alice in the fire trial.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of divination
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