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prescience
(pres¦ci|ence)
Pronunciation:
/ˈprɛsɪəns/
noun
[
mass noun
]
the fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge:
with extraordinary prescience, Jung actually predicted the Nazi eruption
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