Prescience is a noun: the knowing of what will happen before it happens — the foresight itself, not the person. It is not an everyday word. You meet it in books, in serious essays, and when someone looks back and says a warning was strangely right. A prophet in a story may have prescience. A writer may be praised for prescience if an old book described a future that later arrived. Though actually, we rarely mean magic. We mean a sharp reading of the present, or a habit of seeing where things were already going. “Able to know the future” is the adjective prescient; prescience is the name of that knowing. You will almost never hear it in a shop or on the bus. When ordinary people want the idea, they say someone “saw it coming” or “had the sense to…”