foresight

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
foresight (noun)
1.
an act or the power of - foreseeing prescience
2.
provident care - prudence had the foresight to invest his money wisely
3.
an act of looking forward , also a view forward
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
foresight (noun)
1.
the special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur
SYNONYMS:
foreknowledge, prescience
RELATED WORDS:
foreboding, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment; clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, sixth sense; omniscience; divination
foresight (noun)
2.
concern or preparation for the future
SYNONYMS:
farsightedness, foresightedness, forethought, prescience, providence, vision
RELATED WORDS:
precaution, premeditation; discernment, discretion, insight, perception, perceptiveness, prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sapience, wisdom
NEAR ANTONYMS:
hindsight
improvidence, myopia, shortsightedness
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