presciences

Noun

prescience (usually uncountable, plural presciences)

1. (especially, usually) Such knowledge that is supernatural or paranormal in nature, including the prediction of things that nobody could have known by the ordinary senses.
   • God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency

   Synonyms:

   precognition, foresight, foreknowledge, clairvoyance, premonition, divination, prophecy, psychicness

2. (sometimes, usually) Such knowledge that comes from wise and thorough forethought (for example, careful planning).
   • Near-synonym: forethought

   Synonyms:

   foresight, forethought