foresight
English
Etymology
From Middle English forsight, forsyght, forsichte, equivalent to fore- + sight. Compare Scots foresicht (“foresight”), Saterland Frisian Foarsicht (“caution”), West Frisian foarútsjoch (“foresight”), Dutch voorzicht (“foresight”), German Vorsicht (“caution; care; attention”).
Noun
foresight (countable and uncountable, plural foresights)
- The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
- Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 932900760, book IV, stanza 1, page 1:
- The rugged forhead that with graue foreſight / Welds kingdomes cauſes, & affaires of ſtate; […]
- the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
- (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
Synonyms
- (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future): prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future
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Anagrams
- gift horse, gift-horse
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