foresight

1 providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future [syn: foresightedness, foresightfulness]

2 seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, prospicience]

English

Noun

1. The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

   Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.

Synonyms

• prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

Translations

Related terms

• foresee

Foresight or forethought may refer to:

• Has a sight of fours.
• foresight (futures studies)
• premonition
• precognition
• divination

proper names:

• Foresight Exchange, an online prediction market using play money
• Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization
• Foresight Linux, a distribution of free software
• Chanting the Light of Foresight, a 1987 composition by Terry Riley
• HMS Foresight (H68), a Royal Navy F class destroyer
• Forethought (company)
• [Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting] a publication of the International Institute of Forecasters.

See also

• Scientific foreknowledge in Sacred Texts

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