prescience
Knowing beforehand somehow
Prescience is knowledge of events before they occur—foreknowledge or foresight.
The word implies more than good guessing; it suggests an almost supernatural awareness of what's coming: Her prescience about the market crash saved the company millions.
Someone prescient seems to see the future clearly while others remain blind to it.
Paranormal future awareness
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
prevision · presentiment · clairvoyance · prophecy · prediction · foretelling · augury · divination
Ability to anticipate futures
- planningArranging for future events
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
extrapolation · preparation · contingency · proactive · scenario · futurism · prediction · forward-thinking
Foretelling of future events
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
- seerOne who envisions futures
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
sibyl · soothsayer · augur · revelation · apocalypse · vision · foretelling · Nostradamus
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- intuitionInstinctive immediate understanding
feeling · sense · perception · awareness · discernment · ESP · extrasensory · psychic
Divination by celestial positions
- tarotDivination card set
- runesOld Germanic script
- horoscopeZodiac-based fortune telling
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
numerology · scrying · tea-leaves · geomancy · bibliomancy · chiromancy · augury · oracle
Middle size or state
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
trance · Ouija · planchette · mentalist · telepathy · spiritualist · paranormal · supernatural
precognition
Paranormal future awareness
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- anticipationState of awaiting something
forewarning · prevision · presentiment · clairvoyance · prophecy · prediction · foretelling · augury · divination · oracle
foresight
Ability to anticipate futures
- planningArranging for future events
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
projection · extrapolation · preparation · contingency · proactive · scenario · futurism · prediction · forward-thinking · prudence
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
- seerOne who envisions futures
oracle · sibyl · soothsayer · augur · revelation · apocalypse · vision · foretelling · Nostradamus · Cassandra
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
intuition · feeling · sense · perception · awareness · discernment · ESP · extrasensory · psychic · sensitivity
astrology
Divination by celestial positions
palmistry · numerology · scrying · tea-leaves · geomancy · bibliomancy · chiromancy · augury · oracle · fortuneteller
medium
Middle size or state
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- psychicOne claiming supernatural perception
clairvoyant · trance · Ouija · planchette · mentalist · telepathy · spiritualist · paranormal · supernatural · otherworldly
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- DuneArrakis, Dune, Fremen, melange, Paul Atreides
- psychic phenomenatelepathy, clairvoyance, ESP, precognition, extrasensory
- farsightednesshyperopia, presbyopia, longsightedness, foresight, forethought
- expectationsexpect, expectation, anticipate, expectancy, await
- superpowerstelekinesis, telepathy, superpower, invisibility, force powers
presciencehindsight
Recognition after the fact
afterthought · retrospection · postmortem analysis · postmortem · backward-looking
prescienceshortsightedness
Inability to see distance
myopia · improvidence · nearsightedness · blindness · obliviousness