Definition of foresight

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Foresight (n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

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Fortuitous :: Fortuitous (a.) Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
Forecast :: Forecast (n.) Foresight of consequences, and provision against them; prevision; premeditation..
Prospection :: Prospection (n.) The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight..
Prevision :: Prevision (n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.
Unexpectation :: Unexpectation (n.) Absence of expectation; want of foresight.
Accident :: Accident (n.) Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident..
Farseeing :: Farseeing (a.) Having foresight as regards the future.
Foresee :: Foresee (v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Providence :: Providence (n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience..
Contingently :: Contingently (adv.) In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
Suppose :: Suppose (v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight..
Foresightful :: Foresightful (a.) Foresighted.
Long-sighted :: Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing..
Foresighted :: Foresighted (a.) Sagacious; prudent; provident for the future.
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Forewit :: Forewit (n.) Foresight; prudence.
Prescience :: Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Prospective :: Prospective (n.) Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective.
Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.
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