(n.) Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infant survival may depend on foreknowledge of the pathology and prompt, directed efforts at bypassing the airway obstruction.
(2) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
(3) However, in a temporal forced choice experiment with foreknowledge of target position the difference between children and adults was reduced to 0.1 log units.
(4) The build-up to the killing and the victims' foreknowledge of it was captured in a letter the prosecution said was sent to Ntakirutimana by a group of Adventist pastors.
(5) However, it is inevitable that this is done with some foreknowledge; at least it is known that the test smears contain one or more special cases.
(6) Wallau had expressed the view that, even if Ali had foreknowledge of how boxing would affect his physical condition, “If he had it to do all over, he’d live his life the same way.
(7) The data indicate that a single pretreatment Widal test in suspected enteric fever cases is of definite diagnostic value, but that the results must be interpreted with caution and foreknowledge of the test's shortcomings and limitations.
(8) Effective prescribing of anticonvulsants requires foreknowledge of baseline pharmacokinetic data.
(9) The simplified description of the phenomena involved in MR which follows is intended to be comprehensive and does not require foreknowledge of classical physics, quantum mechanics, fluency with mathematical formulae or an understanding of image reconstruction.
(10) Once I would have criticised such a sentiment severely, but of certain parts of life there can be no foreknowledge.
(11) This foreknowledge allowed the vast majority of the side-chain resonances to be discerned in J-correlated spectra.
(12) This loss was maintained in a spatial forced choice experiment without foreknowledge of target location.
(13) These principles are: (1) that outcome foreknowledge should be disclosed and discussed; (2) that key data in the study should be well understood to include what influences it and its inherent variability; and (3) that detailed exposure characterization, whether it be occupational or personal risk factors, should be an integral part of all studies.
(14) Supporters of the drive towards early diagnosis say foreknowledge that someone may develop dementia can let them draw up instructions for their future care, put their financial affairs in order and make lifestyle changes, such as eating healthily and taking more exercise, that will slow the disease's progress.
(15) Foreknowledge of the presence of the aneurysm proved to be life saving when an acute deterioration required emergency surgery.
(16) Foreknowledge of the previous sterilization resulted in delay of surgical management.
(17) Excision of such an hourglass tumor without foreknowledge of such extension may lead to serious spinal cord complications.
(18) This method demonstrates significant generality and predictive power without requiring foreknowledge of any native structural details.
(19) Foreknowledge of disease may lead to better decision making about life-style or reproduction, but depression or suicide may also result.
(20) Foreknowledge of location of the test line within the matrix improved the threshold further, even if the whole matrix was displaced to different retinal positions.
Prescience
Definition:
(n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I didn’t know that Rachel’s early writing - before she even thought of travelling to the Middle East, from her days as a schoolgirl, through college, to life working at a mental-health centre in her home town of Olympia, Washington - would be similarly fascinating, and contain such elements of chilling prescience.
(2) Arguments of considerable ferocity will arise as to whether a new piece of equipment would have been bought anyway with the risk that the government ends up funnelling billions of dollars to companies to subsidise their profits without achieving any real additional cuts to emissions,” you told parliament, with remarkable prescience.
(3) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” With grim prescience, she even talked about how shooting Jewish people displayed attackers’ vulnerability, because it showed they felt unable to sit down and talk.
(4) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
(5) With extraordinary prescience he distinguished emotional states associated with the suppression of digestion from those that were accompanied by accelerated gastric secretory and motor function.
(6) With what now looks like great prescience, Labour blogger Dan Hodges responded on Twitter: "Maurice Glasman has the black spot of Watson upon him.
(7) David Lammy, MP for Tottenham paid tribute to his friend's intellectual range and prescience: "He was one of those 'cut-through' academics that could write in an incredibly erudite, Ivy-league way but who could also explain things in a way that could be understood by the ordinary man and woman.
(8) In general, studies of coagulation proteins under defined conditions have demonstrated the prescience of Davie and Ratnoff and MacFarlane in their proposals of the coagulation cascade.
(9) Writing of gilded age monopolists and robber barons, Twain's prescience is remarkable: he denounces Jay Gould, the financier and speculator, for example, as "the mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country".
(10) If Harriet Harman decided against running because of the stream of vitriol that might be unleashed, well – you can only admire her prescience.
(11) "The first game can give you a picture," Paolo Di Canio said beforehand with some prescience.
(12) Whether through prescience or wild optimism, Lord Porter claims to have foreseen the result of this year’s general election.
(13) Is his prescience born out of prophecy, or is it the product of something else?
(14) She replied: “The little party always gets smashed!” Former MP for Sheffield Hallam Nick Clegg is testament to Merkel’s prescience on that one, and I would not be in the least surprised if May is in fact attempting to assemble some kind of informal Brexit coalition with Labour, so that when the inevitable leaks about shambolic negotiations arrive on the 6 o’clock news, poor old Jeremy Corbyn will be on hand to take the blame.
(15) But what is clear is that Birkenstock successfully, and with prescience, identified the burgeoning interest in self-improvement through accessorising.
(16) Hence OCSC president Rawlins knew the biggest test of his prescience lay in convincing the local powers-that-be of a public-private funding partnership, along with proving their own financial bona fides.
(17) Brian Baxter writes: With uncharacteristic prescience, Bafta crowned Paul Scofield as best newcomer for his screen debut in That Lady.
(18) While the name FutureDairy is freighted with prescience for an era yet to be reached, it is, in fact, already arriving and transforming the economies and lifestyles of the early adopters.
(19) Gore's prescience Environment journalism has come a long way since 1975 when Geoffrey Lean – then of the Observer, now of the Telegraph – became the first dedicated correspondent.
(20) Supporters of the administration have pointed to the prescience of the speech, while critics argue it has in part become a self-fulfilling prophecy by serving to isolate Tehran and Pyongyang.