prescience vs mental ability

prescience and mental ability both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prescience	Yes	No	No	No
mental ability	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental ability is a hypernym of prescience; that is, mental ability is a word with a broader meaning than prescience:

prescience: the power to foresee the future
mental ability: the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior

Other hypernyms of prescience include capacity.

prescience (noun)	mental ability (noun)
the power to foresee the future	the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior