Definition of foresight

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Foresight (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..

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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..
Presciently :: Presciently (adv.) With prescience or foresight.
Fortuitous :: Fortuitous (a.) Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.
Foresee :: Foresee (v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.
Unexpectation :: Unexpectation (n.) Absence of expectation; want of foresight.
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..
Farseeing :: Farseeing (a.) Having foresight as regards the future.
Improvidence :: Improvidence (n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
Foresight :: Foresight (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..
Purveyance :: Purveyance (n.) The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.
Prospect :: Prospect (v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state..
Foresightful :: Foresightful (a.) Foresighted.
Outsee :: Outsee (v. t.) To see beyond; to excel in cer/ainty of seeing; to surpass in foresight.
Prevision :: Prevision (n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.
Prospective :: Prospective (n.) Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective.
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..
Prescience :: Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Prospection :: Prospection (n.) The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight..
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..
Longheaded :: Longheaded (a.) Having unusual foresight or sagacity.
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