foreknowing
Having advance awareness
Foreknowing is knowing something before it happens or before others learn of it.
The word carries a sense of prescience or prophetic awareness: Foreknowing the outcome, she felt no suspense.
It appears most often in religious or philosophical contexts discussing divine omniscience or fate.
Advance sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
intuition · foresight · insight · perceptive · anticipatory · sensing · precognition · awareness
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
augury · divination · clairvoyance · prognostication · foretelling · portent · omen · auspices
Estimating future conditions
- predictionForecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
- futurologyStudy of coming times
modeling · estimation · calculation · speculation · foresight · prognostication · anticipation · planning
Unlimited knowledge state
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
- prophecyForetelling of future events
revelation · eternal · godlike · deity · omnipotence · sovereignty · infallible · transcendence
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- presentimentVague sense of future events
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
inkling · intuition · foresight · insight · perceptive · anticipatory · sensing · precognition · awareness · forethought
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
sibyl · augury · divination · clairvoyance · prognostication · foretelling · portent · omen · auspices · vision
forecasting
Estimating future conditions
- predictionForecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
futurology · modeling · estimation · calculation · speculation · foresight · prognostication · anticipation · planning · preparation
omniscience
Unlimited knowledge state
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- foreordinationPredetermined divine decree
prophecy · revelation · eternal · godlike · deity · omnipotence · sovereignty · infallible · transcendence · immutable
foreknowingunknowing
Lacking awareness or information
ignorant · unaware · hindsight · oblivious · finding out
foreknowingcaught off guard
Surprised when unprepared
blindsided · surprised · unprepared · taken aback · unforewarned
know, knowledge, known, knowing, unknown, acknowledge, prescient, foreknowledge, foreknow