Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
foresight
IPA transcription: [f'ɔɹs,aɪt]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulness
Meaning:
providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
Usage examples
This extension of our insight makes foresight more accurate and comprehensive.
This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind.
One result of this visit was a letter which showed him possessed with wonderful powers of analysis and foresight.
Mr. Andersson also pinches the paper into a ridge along the middle of the gun, to ensure a more defined foresight.
So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect.
One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person.
Leave out the direction which depends upon foresight of possible future results, and there is no intelligence in present behavior.
He, at least, respects the economy of nature, selects his victims with careful foresight, and after death does honour to their remains.
It can harmonize, assimilate, and protect the several parts and members, and extend the benefit of its foresight and precautions to each.
Now mucous secretions surcharged the tongue, and took away the power of speech; now the sick one spoke, but in speaking had a foresight of death.