Definition for Foresight:

• Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

Synonyms for Foresight:

• n.

  •
  • common sense,
  • brilliance,
  • foreknowledge,
  • acumen,
  • reason,
  • intelligence,
  • clarity,
  • judgment,
  • intellect.
  •
  • preparedness.
  •
  • careful.
  •anticipation (noun)
  • out-looks,
  • high hope,
  • out look,
  • pre-visions,
  • fore bodings,
  • pre science,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • fore boding,
  • fore sights,
  • in-tuition,
  • pre-conception,
  • pro mise,
  • out looks,
  • pro-mise,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre occupations,
  • pre sentiment,
  • pre-monition,
  • pre-science,
  • pre conception,
  • fore-seeings,
  • fore-sights,
  • pro mises,
  • fore-seeing,
  • fore-taste,
  • fore taste,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • pre monition,
  • pre monitions,
  • pre-occupations,
  • pre-sciences,
  • pre-occupation,
  • pre sentiments,
  • pre-monitions,
  • pre occupation,
  • fore-sight,
  • fore seeing,
  • fore-bodings,
  • out-look,
  • pro spect,
  • in tuition,
  • fore sight,
  • fore tastes,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • pro spects,
  • pro-mises,
  • fore seeings,
  • foreseeings,
  • pre vision,
  • pre-vision,
  • in-tuitions,
  • pre sciences,
  • pro-spect,
  • in tuitions,
  • pre visions,
  • pro-spects,
  • prior knowledges,
  • looking forwards,
  • pre conceptions,
  • fore-tastes.
  •attribute (noun)
  • foresightfulness,
  • foresight.
  •calculation (noun)
  • Canniness,
  • thought.
  •caution (noun)
  • discreetness.
  •circumspection (noun)
  • fore-thoughtfulnesses,
  • fore thoughtfulness,
  • forethoughtfulnesses,
  • fore thoughtfulnesses,
  • fore-thoughtfulness.
  •discretion (noun)
  • good senses,
  • judiciousnesses,
  • consideratenesses,
  • dis-crimination,
  • dis crimination,
  • dis criminations,
  • dis-criminations,
  • presence mind.
  •enterprise (noun)
  • re-source,
  • selfreliance,
  • self reliance,
  • re source,
  • re-sources,
  • re sources.
  •expectation (noun)
  • anticipation.
  •extrasensory perception (noun)
  • sixth sense.
  •forecast (noun)
  • fore tokens,
  • fore-casts,
  • fore-telling,
  • fore-knowledges,
  • fore-cast,
  • fore casts,
  • fore-token,
  • fore-tokens,
  • fore telling,
  • foretellings,
  • fore knowledge,
  • fore token,
  • fore-knowledge,
  • fore knowledges,
  • fore cast.
  •foresight (noun)
  • farsightedness,
  • premonition,
  • clairvoyance,
  • prophecy.
  •forethought (noun)
  • fore-thoughts,
  • pre meditations,
  • pro visions,
  • pro vision,
  • pre meditation,
  • far-sightednesses,
  • pro-vision,
  • pro-visions,
  • fore thoughts,
  • pre-meditations,
  • far sightedness,
  • fore-thought,
  • pre-meditation,
  • fore thought,
  • far sightednesses.
  •precaution (noun)
  • safety measures,
  • safety measure.
  •precognition (noun)
  • extra sensory perception,
  • fortune telling,
  • fortune-telling,
  • in sight,
  • fortunetelling.
  •prediction (noun)
  • palmistry,
  • prediction,
  • horoscope,
  • of event anticipation.
  •preparation (noun)
  • lead time,
  • homeworks,
  • getting ready,
  • build-ups,
  • incubations,
  • incubation,
  • making ready,
  • putting in order,
  • tryout,
  • substructures,
  • gestation,
  • schoolwork,
  • build-up,
  • substructure,
  • homework.
  •prudence (noun)
  • sophrosynes,
  • cautiousnesses.
  •sagacity (noun)
  • levelheadedness,
  • good judgment,
  • perceptiveness.
  •sixth sense (noun)
  • vibe,
  • gut feeling,
  • vibes,
  • keen intuition.
  •vision (noun)
  • breadth of view,
  • castles in air,
  • ideality,
  • Visions,
  • mental picture,
  • Idealities,
  • castles in the air,
  • mental pictures.
  •wisdom (noun)
  • in-formation,
  • in-formations,
  • in formations,
  • pansophies.

• Other synonyms:

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  • foreknow,
  • mantic,
  • forehandedness,
  • vatical,
  • sibylline,
  • Soothsay,
  • prognosticative,
  • Fatidical,
  • Forerun,
  • Prefigurement,
  • Vaticinal,
  • bode,
  • minatory,
  • prognostic,
  • thundercloud,
  • prognosticate,
  • haruspex,
  • vaticinator,
  • vaticination,
  • Prophesier,
  • minacious,
  • forewarning,
  • foresighted,
  • soothsaying,
  • augury,
  • Foreteller,
  • auspex,
  • vaticinate,
  • foreshadower,
  • vatic,
  • Presager,
  • sibyl,
  • fatidic,
  • Augural,
  • divinitory,
  • prognostication.
  •
  • herald,
  • forebode,
  • harbinger,
  • prophetess,
  • foretell,
  • prefigure,
  • prophet,
  • foreshadow,
  • soothsayer,
  • augur,
  • portent,
  • prognosis,
  • diviner,
  • omen,
  • prophetic,
  • circumspection,
  • threatening,
  • prescient,
  • divination,
  • presage,
  • envision,
  • farsighted,
  • visionary,
  • portend,
  • oracular.
  •
  • sample,
  • seer,
  • anticipate,
  • precursor,
  • forerunner,
  • oracle,
  • projection,
  • threat.
  •
  • Forewarn.
  •
  • threaten.
  •
  • outlook.
  •
  • sign.
  •
  • see.
  •
  • call.

Paraphrases for Foresight:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    farsightedness, far-sightedness.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    sight.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    far-sighted, future-oriented.
  • Proper noun, singular
    prediction, predictions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    acumen, prudence, precaution.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    forecast.
  • Proper noun, singular
    forecast, forecasts, forecasting.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    forethought, perceptiveness, Clear-sightedness, insight, predictability, anticipation, perspicacity, foreseeability, forecast, wisdom, cautiousness, forecasting, prediction.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    forecast.

Antonyms for Foresight:

• n.

  • mental preparedness
    hindsight, carelessness, neglect, negligence, thoughtlessness, indiscretion, ignorance.
  • Other antonyms:
    myopia, realization, dread, shortsightedness, fear, consummation, astonishment, wonder, surprise, doubt, despair, enjoyment.

Foresight Sentence Examples:

• Her foresight discerned, with fatal clearness, the clash of their opposing forces, accentuated by the permanent contrast of their tastes and dispositions.

• Father Benwell was a man possessed of extraordinary power of foresight - but he was not infallible.

Hyponym for Foresight:

• n.

  • attribute
    providence.