prescience (adj) - knowledge of events before they occur; second sight [presh-ee-uhns]
BREAKDOWN: PRE- (before) + SCI- (knowledge) + -ENCE (act or state)
prescient means possessing knowledge of events before they occur; having foreknowledge
“The present is a curtain. Most of us can’t see behind it. Those who do see—via luck or prescience—change what is there by seeing.” —David Mitchell