foreknowledge

Etymology

fore- + knowledge

noun

  1. Knowing beforehand; foresight, precognition, prescience.
    But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way. 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House

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