prescience. noun. Foreknowledge; foresight.

This is basically a fancy word to describe fortunetelling. Take the Latin for "before" and "to know" and you have prescience. Have an oracle or a 10 year old boy with "The Shinning"(TM) in a story? Booyah. Wanna go beyond just "psychic"? Then prescience and its related forms are the words for you!

Okay, it doesn't always have to be about paranormal abilities to tell the future; sometimes it's just being able to think ahead enough. But that's boring, so meh.

My brother again proved his prescience when he didn't drive downtown Friday night.

The baby had a prescient understanding of what was coming to his face that night...

It didn't take prescience to know that hiding the gun in the microwave was stupid.

Fun fact: I first learned about this word as a Pskyer's ability in Warhammer 40,000. Man, those were fun times (even though that one friend totally cheated all the time...).

(adjective form: prescient; adverb form: presciently.)