foresight
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈfɔrˌsaɪt/
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previsión
- With her foresight, she was able to prepare the community for the upcoming storm.
- perfect foresight
- lack of foresight
- foresight and planning
However, I seem to have foresight about things like that.
- However, I seem to have foresight about things like that.
- So give them tons of credit for foresight.
- And we were looking at really building essentially foresight modelling, seeing where car design would go.
- Like you have more foresight into how your actions are going to have reactions.
- They will begin to live without ideals and prearranged purposes, without foresight, relying on chance in their own ready wit.
Examples
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You can do everything you want to do, you just need foresight and patience.
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First, Martha had the foresight to acquire this company back in 2005.
Fiction book (2002) -
And he had the foresight to ask the question.
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So it's important to have some foresight and problems like this.
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However, I seem to have foresight about things like that.
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Would it not show more foresight to tell him before the burning?
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The proactive principal is expected to have foresight to avoid problems in the school setting.
Academic text (1996) -
He had unusual foresight about the war, saying this war will last many months, possibly years.
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A proactive principal has the foresight to notice what is needed in educating the whole child.
Academic text (1996) -
Steve Jobs had the foresight to invest very heavily in this other technology that came out of Xerox Parc.
Synonyms
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5.5
Careful planning for the future to avoid problems
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8.9
Being aware of something before it happens
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9.9
To know what will happen in the future
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7.1
Ability to think ahead and plan for future problems
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7.5
Thinking ahead and preparing for future needs or problems
Careful planning for the future to meet needs and avoid problems
The ability to plan ahead and avoid future problems
An ability to see and plan for things that will happen
Thinking about the future to plan for it
How Foresighted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word foresight breaks into fore- ('before') and sight ('seeing'), so it means 'seeing before'. That's why having foresight is being able to think ahead and prepare for the future.