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foresight::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| Type of | knowing |
foresight::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | foresightedness, foresightfulness |
| Type of | providence |
Examples of foresight
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Thanks to its own mismanagement and lack of foresight, Wall Street landed on us.
From the newsweek.com
No, we've got to have the foresight to plan for the future and not be blinkered.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
They certainly had the foresight not to plan the whole thing at the last minute.
From the timesunion.com
Welcome to another sport which believes that hindsight is better than foresight.
From the sacbee.com
Yet few of those investors had the foresight to reinvest on the election result.
From the forbes.com
With a little foresight, South could have obtained a complete count of the hand.
From the stltoday.com
When you threaten someone, you rely on his foresight cooperating with his memory.
From the time.com
It will be surely be interesting to see whose foresight pays off in five years.
From the techcrunch.com
Declarer's foresight in maneuvering two heart ruffs now paid a handsome dividend.
From the stltoday.com
- Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
- Prevision: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
- In futures studies, especially in Europe, the term "foresight" has become widely used to describe activities such as: *critical thinking concerning long-term developments, *debate and effort to create wider participatory democracy, *shaping the future, especially by influencing public policy.
- The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future
- A broad term covering all methods of envisaging the future, but with an emphasis on the alternative futures concept. Most writers on foresight - those who do foresighting - consider it to include some element of action or decision, so forecasting alone is not normally seen as foresight. ...
- The ability to play in only those tournaments you are sure of winning.
- The guiding "angle of approach" in terms of which one approaches what is to be interpreted. I think, though MH does not make this so clear, that the fore-sight is the sight that brings the "as" into focus: when one interprets this as a hammer, one aims one's fore-sight at the equipmental role, ...
- Foresight as "the ability to create and maintain a high-quality, coherent and functional forward view and to use the insights arising in organizationally useful ways." (Australian educator Richard Slaughter)
- Ability to think about the future and come up with options and solutions that will address future needs.
