foresight
care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
the act or power of foreseeing; prevision; prescience.
an act of looking forward.
knowledge or insight gained by or as by looking forward; a view of the future.
Surveying.
a sight or reading taken on a forward point.
(in leveling) a rod reading on a point the elevation of which is to be determined.
Origin of foresight
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Other words for foresight
Other words from foresight
- foresighted, adjective
- fore·sight·ed·ly, adverb
- fore·sight·ed·ness, noun
- foresightful, adjective
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How to use foresight in a sentence
When districts make decisions and just hand them down to schools with no foresight into what it will look like on the ground, it’s extremely frustrating.
The Learning Curve: Universal TK Is Not So Universal on the Ground | Will Huntsberry | August 19, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoWith a little foresight, managers can calm the waves of conflict before they crest and crash.
Remote Work is Now a Status Symbol. Here's How To Make a Workplace That Works for Everyone. | Adam Galinsky | August 10, 2021 | TimeWhile it sounds simple, rolling out a no-meeting policy takes foresight and planning as well as bearing in mind that how employees communicate is part of your corporate culture too.
When the company was still small, perhaps such a lack of foresight and imagination could be excused.
Still, it’s a balancing act, Wallace said, pointing to “the need for reflection in conjunction with foresight.”
With the pandemic receding, you shouldn’t rush to move beyond your experiences of the past year | Steven Petrow | May 30, 2021 | Washington Post
What would McCain have done if he were president and had the foresight about the ISIS that he now claims?
Knowing almost nothing of football, he had the random foresight to examine the Steeler legend's brain.
Natural selection is a mechanical process with no foresight, which can only blindly favor short-term gain.
The Panglossian view of natural selection is an appealing idea to us as human beings, you argue, because brains have foresight.
It is a shame that those organizing the march did not show more foresight.
Do not suffer yourselves to be persuaded that measures of foresight are always followed by disasters.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamSuch can live many lives; while a Thoreau can live but one, and that only with perpetual foresight.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonBut this foresight can scarcely belong to His glory, nor spare Him the reproaches which men could legitimately heap upon Him.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierThe faculty of foresight, or the ability to know in advance all which is to happen in the world, is attributed to God.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean MeslierA God of foresight would prevent evil, and in this way would be saved the trouble of punishing it.
Superstition In All Ages (1732) | Jean Meslier
British Dictionary definitions for foresight
/ (ˈfɔːˌsaɪt) /
provision for or insight into future problems, needs, etc
the act or ability of foreseeing
the act of looking forward
surveying a reading taken looking forwards to a new station, esp in levelling from a point of known elevation to a point the elevation of which is to be determined: Compare backsight
the front sight on a firearm
Derived forms of foresight
- foresighted, adjective
- foresightedly, adverb
- foresightedness, noun
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