Foresight

Noun

 * 1) The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
 * Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.

Adjectives for Foresight
shrinking; patriotic; economic; fiery; sagacious; divine; prudent; keen.

Synonyms for Foresight

 * prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy
 * premeditation, forecast, forethought, preparation, anticipation, carefulness, prognostication, economy, prudence.

Antonyms for Foresight
hindsight, impetuosity, rashness, ignorance, folly, carelessness, foolishness, wastefulness, waste, thoughtlessness.

Thesaurus
ESP, actuarial prediction, acuity, acumen, acuteness, aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, apocalypse, apperception, approach, arrangement, astuteness, attack, beginnings, blueprint, blueprinting, by-and-by, calculation, canniness, care, caution, charting, circumspection, clairsentience, clairvoyance, cogency, conception, contrivance, course ahead, crystal ball, design, determinism, device, discernment, discreetness, discretion, disposition, distant future, earliness, early hour, early stage, enterprise, envisagement, eventuality, expectation, extrasensory perception, farseeingness, farsightedness, figuring, first crack, first stage, forearming, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, forehandedness, foreknowledge, foreshowing, foresightedness, foretelling, forethought, forethoughtfulness, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, game, graphing, ground floor, ground plan, guesswork, guidelines, head start, hereafter, idea, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, improbability, incisiveness, insight, insurance, intention, intuition, layout, lineup, long-range plan, longheadedness, longsightedness, lucidity, mapping, master plan, measures, method, methodology, near future, offing, omen, operations research, organization, outlook, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, perspicuity, perspicuousness, plan, planning, planning function, posteriority, prearrangement, precaution, precautions, precautiousness, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premonition, presage, presaging, prescience, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prevenience, preventive measure, prevision, probability, procedure, prognosis, prognostication, program, program of action, project, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospect, prospectus, protection, providence, provision, prudence, psychometry, rationalization, readiness, running start, safeguard, sagaciousness, sagacity, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, second sight, sensibility, setup, sixth sense, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, steps, steps and measures, strategic plan, strategy, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the future, the morrow, the picture, the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, time to spare, tomorrow, trenchancy, vaticination, very beginning, vision, watchfulness, way, wisdom, working plan

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Related terms

 * foresee

Anagrams

 * gift horse, gift-horse