foreknowledge

(fôr-nŏl'ĭj, fōr-, fôr'nŏl'-, fōr'-)
n.
Knowledge or awareness of something before its existence or occurrence; prescience.

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The ability to predict events before they occur. Traditionally God's foreknowledge, apparently guaranteed by his omniscience, raises severe problems both about the fixedness of the future, and about whether it can co-exist with our free will.

IN BRIEF: Realizing something prior to it happening.

It would be very useful to have some foreknowledge of the concert hall before the concert actually began.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - forudviden

Nederlands (Dutch)
voorkennis

Français (French)
n. - connaissance préalable

Deutsch (German)
n. - vorherige Kenntnis

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εκ των προτέρων γνώση

Italiano (Italian)
prescienza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - saber (m) antecipado

Русский (Russian)
предвидение

Español (Spanish)
n. - presciencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vetskap på förhand

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
预知, 先见之明

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 預知, 先見之明

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 예지

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 予知

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) معرفه سابقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ידיעה מראש‬

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