foresight
Meaning of foresight
- the ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future.
he had the foresight to check that his escape route was clear
- the front sight of a gun.
- a sight taken forwards.
Middle English: from fore- + sight, probably suggested by Old Norse forsjá, forsjó .
Information about foresight
- It is a name.
- The plural form of foresight is: foresights.
- Languages in which foresight is used:
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Hyphenation of foresight
fore-sight
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- foresight is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
foresight synonyms
Meaning foresightedness:
foresightedness, foresightfulness
Meaning prevision:
prevision, farsightedness, prospicience
Meaning careful consideration of what will be necessary or may happen in the future:
Meaning the action of anticipating something; expectation or prediction:
Meaning the process of making plans for something:
Meaning the action of providing or supplying something for use:
Meaning the fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge:
Meaning the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence:
Meaning the action of paying close attention to something:
Meaning the action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties:
Meaning the quality of being prudent; cautiousness:
Meaning the provision of what is necessary for the health, welfare, maintenance, and protection of someone or something:
Meaning care taken to avoid danger or mistakes:
Meaning a measure taken in advance to prevent something dangerous, unpleasant, or inconvenient from happening:
Meaning the state of being fully prepared for something:
Meaning a state of readiness, especially for war:
Meaning the ability to judge well:
Meaning the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability:
Meaning the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness:
Meaning the ability to think about or plan the future with imagination or wisdom:
Meaning knowledge or perception of a situation or fact:
Meaning the action or process of penetrating something:
foresight antonyms
Meaning understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed:
Translation of foresight
- German: Vorhersage, Voraussicht
- Spanish: pronóstico, predicción, adivinación
- French: prévision, pronostic, prédiction
- Italian: previsione
- Portuguese: previsão
Words that rhyme with foresight
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