Foresight
['fɔːsaɪt] or ['fɔrsaɪt]
Definition
(noun.) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future.
Editor: Roxanne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
(n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
(n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
(n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Foreknowledge, prescience, prevision.[2]. Forecast, forethought, precaution, prudence, anticipation, provident regard to the future.
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Definition
n. act of foreseeing: wise forethought prudence: the sight on the muzzle of a gun: a forward reading of a levelling staff.—adjs. Fore′sighted Fore′sightful; Fore′sightless.
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Examples
- But how about the foresight and the moral retrogression? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Mr. Pickwick, with his usual foresight and sagacity, had chosen a peculiarly desirable moment for his visit to the borough. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Here is the foresight, said he putting his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Can you look at Miss Halcombe and not see that she has the foresight and the resolution of a man? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Which would turn out to have the more foresight in it--her rationality or Caleb's ardent generosity? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Leave out the direction which depends upon foresight of possible future results, and there is no intelligence in present behavior. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a cause of constant distress to Mrs. Welland that her son-in-law showed so little foresight in planning his days. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It is an absolute fact that the great electrical inventors and the men who stood behind them have had little return for their foresight and courage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Anderson was in possession of Spottsylvania, through no foresight of Lee, however. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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