Foresight

Definition: Foresight

Foresight

Noun

1. Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future.

2. Knowing in advance; foreseeing.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "foresight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Computing

Hydrologic

Mining

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Synonyms: Foresight

Caution

Foresight; vigilance; warning.

Expectation

Noun: expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight.

Foresight

Noun: foresight, prospicience, prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence; (preparation).

Futurity

Prospect; (expectation); foresight.

Incuriosity

Boredom, ennui (weariness); satiety; foreknowledge (foresight);

Intelligence Wisdom

Prudence; vigilance; tact; foresight; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast.

Crosswords: Foresight

Magnificent Foresight (1958)

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Books

• Foresight : Knowlege to Put the Young & Young At Heart Ahead in the Game of Life (reference)

• Foresight and Precaution: Proceedings of Esrel 2000, Sars & Sra-Europe Annual Conference, Edinburgh,Uk (reference)

• Foresight and Understanding (reference)

• Innovations for Our Future: Delphi '98 New Foresight on Science and Technology (Technology, Innovation, and Policy, 13) (reference)

• Materials Foresight on the Electronics Industry (Materials Strategy Commission) (reference)

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Periodicals

• Foresight (reference)

• Foresight Bulletin (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• FOREsight 1 Golf (reference)

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Music

• Riley: Chanting the Light of Foresight (reference)

• Foresight [IMPORT] (reference)

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Wherein one cannot but admire the wisdom of the great Creator, who having given to man foresight, and an ability to lay up for the future, as well as to supply the present necessity, hath made it necessary, that society of man and wife should be more lasting, than of male and female amongst other creatures; that so their industry might be encouraged, and their interest better united, to make provision and lay up goods for their common issue, which uncertain mixture, or easy and frequent solutions of conjugal society would mightily disturb. (Second Treatise of Government)

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If nature is called providence, society should be called foresight.

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Economic History

Ireland

Under the recommendation of the Technology Foresight Report 2000, Science Foundation Ireland has been established to promote excellence in scientific research. (references)

Korea

If a U.S. company is fortunate enough to have the foresight to consider entering into the Korean market, and no one has yet filed to register the same or similar trademark in Korea, it is highly advised that the U.S. company register its trademark first before another unauthorized party registers it. The company will save a lot of time, energy, resources, and legal fees in the long run. (references)

Political Economy

IRELAND

Irish officials are also proactively supporting Irish private and public involvement in development of the "next generation internet." The recently announced "Technology Foresight Fund," an Irish government program to fund basic scientific research projects with potential for commercial development, will focus on computers and internet related research, as one of its priorities. (references)

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Expression using "foresight": lack of foresight. Additional references.

Albanian

tejshikim, parashikim (anticipation, contemplation, dope, foreboding, forecast, precaution, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, vision), largpamësi (forecast, forethought, vision). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظر في العواقب (forethought), ‏نظر (behold, consider, consideration, discernment, gaze, look, rumble, seeing, sight, theorize), ‏حكمة (aphorism, discreetness, maxim, policy, proverb, prudence, sagacity, sapience, say, sobering, wholesomeness, wisdom), ‏بصيرة (discernment, judgement, prevision, sagacity, sight, vision). (various references)

Bulgarian 

мушка (bead, dispart, front sight, muzzle-sight), предсказване (auspice, divination, prediction, prognostic, prognostication), предвидливост (foreseeing, forethought, perspicacity). (various references)

Chinese 

远见, 先見之明 . (various references)

Czech

prozíravost (acumen, farsightedness, forethought, Providence, prudence, sagacity, vision). (various references)

Danish

forudseenhed (precaution). (various references)

Dutch

voorzorgsmaatregel (precaution, precautionary action, precautionary measure). (various references)

Farsi 

پیش بینی (Augury, Caution, Expectancy, Precaution, Prognosis, Prospect), مال اندیشی (Perspective, Prognosis), دوراندیشی , بصیرت (Clairvoyance, Discretion, Insight, Intuition, Vision). (various references)

Finnish

kaukonäköisyys (far-sightedness). (various references)

French

prévoyance (forehandedness, foresightedness, forethought). (various references)

German

voraussicht (anticipation, foreknowledge, foresightedness). (various references)

Greek 

πρόβλεψη (anticipation, contemplation, forecast, outlook, prediction, prevision, provision). (various references)

Hebrew 

ראית �"� ול�" (prescience). (various references)

Hungarian

körültekintés (caution, circumspection, discretion, imprudence, prudence, wariness), jövõbelátás (divination), jövőbe látás, gondoskodás (assiduity, care, charge, forethought, maintenance, providing, provision, regard, solicitude), elõrelátás (discretion, forecast, forethought, prevision, Providence), előrelátás (anticipation, forecast, forethought, prescience, prevision, providence), célgömb (bead). (various references)

Italian

previsione (anticipation, auspice, calculation, expectation, forecast, foreknowledge, foresightedness, prevision), previdenza (forethought, Providence). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� 謀 (forethought), 予見 (divination, foreknowledge), 予知 (foreknowledge, intimation, prediction, premonition), 智慮 , 先見の明 (anticipation), 先見 (anticipation), 先知 (speedy comprehension). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�"け�"のめい (anticipation), せ�"け�" (ancient sage, anticipation, arbitrary use of power, sending ahead, shallow view, superficial idea), せ�"ち (front, speedy comprehension), よけ�" (data, divination, foreknowledge, given conditions, National Institute of Health, postulate), よち (earth, foreknowledge, intimation, margin, place, prediction, premonition, room, scope, world), ちりょ (sagacity, wisdom), え�"ぼう (distant view, forethought, vista). (various references)

Korean 

� 견. (various references)

Manx

kiarail rolaue (predestination, providence), grine (bread corn, cereal, grain, grapeshot, oat grist, pellet), fys rolaue (foreknowledge). (various references)

Pig Latin

oresightfay.(various references)

Portuguese

previdência (precaution). (various references)

Romanian

previziune (anticipation, prevision), prevedere (augury, care, discretion, forecast, foreknowledgement, forethought, precaution, prevision, Providence, provision, prudence), precauţiune (precaution), grijã (alarm, anxiety, attention, care, carefulness, charge, chariness, conscientiousness, custody, deliberation, harassment, mindfulness, neatness, observance, painstaking, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, worriment, worry), bãnuialã (anticipation, apprehension, conjecture, discredit, distrust, doubt, hunch, idea, inkling, jealousy, mistrust, presumption, supposition, surmise, suspicion). (various references)

Russian 

предусмотрительность (forethought, long head, providence, providency). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predviđanje (anticipation, auspice, divination, foreknowledge, prevision). (various references)

Spanish

previsión (anticipation, farsightedness, forecast, forethought, prevision, Providence, thoughtfulness), precaución (caution, forethought, precaution). (various references)

Swedish

förutseende (anticipative, anticipatory, far sighted, farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, forethought, forethoughtful, forward-looking, long sighted, prevision, provident, wise). (various references)

Turkish

tedbir (caution, cautiousness, discretion, expedient, forethought, hedge, measure, policy, precaution, protection, Providence, sparingness, step), sağgörü (clairvoyance, farsightedness, forethought, prudence, sagacity), sağduyu (common sense, farsightedness, forethought, good sense, horse sense, judgement, lucidity, lucidness, mother wit, nous, prudence, reason, sense), basiret (clairvoyance, discreetness, perception), arpacık (bead, front sight, sty, stye), önsezi (a hunch, foreboding, forethought, hunch, intuition, precognition, premonition, presage, prescience, presentiment, sixth sense, vision), önlem (clampdown, countermeasure, diligence, expedient, forethought, hedge, maneuver, manoeuvre, measure, policy, precaution, prevention, preventive, protection, provision, sparingness, step), öngörü (calculation, prescience, prudence). (various references)

Ukrainian

передбачення (auspice, forecast, foreknowledge, precognition, prediction, prescience, prevision, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication), передбачливість (caution, long-sightedness, prudence). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự thấy trước (prescience, prevision), sự nhìn xa thấy trước. (various references)

Welsh

rhagwelediad (prescience). (various references)

cautio, providentia, providentiae, providentiam, prudentia, prudentiae, prudentiam. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "foresight": foresighted, foresightedly, foresightedness, foresightednesses, foresightful, foresights. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Foresight" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farnsagh, foreset, foresightful, Foretich, forsight. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fighters, freights, ghostier, refights.

-2 letters: fighter, forgets, forties, freight, frights, goiters, goitres, goriest, heriots, hogties, hoister, ogreish, refight, resight, shifter, shortie, sighter.

-3 letters: egoist, eights, ergots, fetish, fetors, fights, firths, fisher, fogies, forest, forges, forget, fortes, fortis, foster, fright, friths, froths, girths, gofers, goiter, goitre, griefs, grifts, griots, griths, heriot, hogtie, horste, hosier.

+1 letter: foresights.

+2 letters: foresighted, overflights.

+3 letters: foresightful.

+4 letters: flugelhornist, foresightedly, fortnightlies.

+5 letters: electrofishing, flugelhornists, foreshortening, forthrightness.