Prospicience

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /pɹəˈspɪʃəns/

Definitions

1. The capacity for anticipating future developments based on current information is described as foresight
2. This refers to the skill of predicting potential future occurrences by analyzing present trends
3. The ability to foresee future events by evaluating present circumstances is often referred to as foresight

Etymology: Its roots are literal. Latin "prospicere" combined "pro-", meaning forward, with "specere", to look, so to foresee was originally to look ahead. English adds the "-ence" ending to make the idea a quality rather than an action. The same Latin verb lies behind a more familiar relative. "Prospect" comes from its past participle and first meant a wide view across open country, the kind of scene a person surveys from a height. Only later did it come to mean an expected outcome or a likely future. What once belonged to the eye moved into the realm of expectation.

Synonyms: foresight, foreknowledge, anticipation

Antonyms: ignorance, shortsightedness