A prior cognizance or understanding; an awareness or comprehension beforehand.
Each of these terms is the product of the irony which comes from having obtained a foregrasp of mundaneity while attempting to articulate mundaneity within the idiom which mundaneity supports.2010, Melvin Pollner, Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse:
foregrasp
verb
Etymology From fore- + grasp.
1
To grasp beforehand.
Thy great deliverance is a greater thing Than purest imagination can foregrasp; A thing beyond all conscious hungering, Beyond all hope that makes the poet sing.2007, George MacDonald, Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul: