prevision

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

prevision
    n 1: a prophetic vision (as in a dream)
    2: the power to foresee the future [syn: {prescience},
       {prevision}]
    3: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn:
       {prevision}, {foresight}, {farsightedness}, {prospicience}]
    4: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
       [syn: {prediction}, {anticipation}, {prevision}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Prevision \Pre*vi"sion\, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]vision.]
   Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. --H. Spencer.
   [1913 Webster]