SuaviloquyToday’s word

prescience

Prescience n.

Etymology: [F. prescience, L. praescientia. See Prescient.]

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for prescience; he lists it under wisdom.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.