'Foresight' definitions:
Definition of 'foresight'
From: WordNet
noun
Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future [syn: foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulness]
noun
Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience]
Definition of 'Foresight'
From: GCIDE
- Foresight \Fore"sight`\, n.
- 1. The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought. [1913 Webster]
- This seems an unseasonable foresight. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A random expense, without plan or foresight. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Surv.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Gun.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'foresight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actuarial prediction,
- acuity,
- acumen,
- acuteness,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- anticipation,
- apocalypse,
- apperception,
- approach,
- arrangement,
- astuteness,
- attack,
- beginnings,
- blueprint,
- blueprinting,
- by-and-by,
- calculation,
- canniness,
- care,
- caution,
- charting,
- circumspection,
- clairsentience,
- clairvoyance,
- cogency,
- conception,
- contrivance,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- design,
- determinism,
- device,
- discernment,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- disposition,
- distant future,
- earliness,
- early hour,
- early stage,
- enterprise,
- envisagement,
- ESP,
- eventuality,
- expectation,
- extrasensory perception,
- farseeingness,
- farsightedness,
- figuring,
- first crack,
- first stage,
- forearming,
- foreboding,
- forecast,
- forecasting,
- forehandedness,
- foreknowledge,
- foreshowing,
- foresightedness,
- foretelling,
- forethought,
- forethoughtfulness,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- game,
- graphing,
- ground floor,
- ground plan,
- guesswork,
- guidelines,
- head start,
- hereafter,
- idea,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- improbability,
- incisiveness,
- insight,
- insurance,
- intention,
- intuition,
- layout,
- lineup,
- long-range plan,
- longheadedness,
- longsightedness,
- lucidity,
- mapping,
- master plan,
- measures,
- method,
- methodology,
- near future,
- offing,
- omen,
- operations research,
- organization,
- outlook,
- penetration,
- perception,
- perceptiveness,
- percipience,
- perspicaciousness,
- perspicacity,
- perspicuity,
- perspicuousness,
- plan,
- planning,
- planning function,
- posteriority,
- prearrangement,
- precaution,
- precautions,
- precautiousness,
- prediction,
- prefiguration,
- prefigurement,
- prefiguring,
- premonition,
- presage,
- presaging,
- prescience,
- presentiment,
- preshowing,
- presignifying,
- prevenience,
- preventive measure,
- prevision,
- probability,
- procedure,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- program,
- program of action,
- project,
- promise,
- prophecy,
- prophesying,
- prospect,
- prospectus,
- protection,
- providence,
- provision,
- prudence,
- psychometry,
- rationalization,
- readiness,
- running start,
- safeguard,
- sagaciousness,
- sagacity,
- schedule,
- schema,
- schematism,
- schematization,
- scheme,
- scheme of arrangement,
- second sight,
- sensibility,
- setup,
- sixth sense,
- soothsay,
- speculation,
- statistical prediction,
- steps,
- steps and measures,
- strategic plan,
- strategy,
- system,
- systematization,
- tactical plan,
- tactics,
- the big picture,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the picture,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- time to spare,
- tomorrow,
- trenchancy,
- vaticination,
- very beginning,
- vision,
- watchfulness,
- way,
- wisdom,
- working plan