FORESIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foresight mean? 

• FORESIGHT (noun)
  The noun FORESIGHT has 2 senses:

1. providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future

2. seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

  Familiarity information: FORESIGHT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORESIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

foresight; foresightedness; foresightfulness

Hypernyms ("foresight" is a kind of...):

providence (the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

farsightedness; foresight; prevision; prospicience

Hypernyms ("foresight" is a kind of...):

knowing (a clear and certain mental apprehension)

 Context examples 

“Here is the foresight,” said he putting his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Micawber sat in his elbow-chair, with his eyebrows raised; half receiving and half repudiating Mrs. Micawber's views as they were stated, but very sensible of their foresight.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The part which provoked her most, was that in all this waste of foresight and caution, she should have lost the right moment for seeing whether he saw them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight!—especially with such a groundwork of anticipation as her mind had already made.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Poor Janet has been sadly taken in, and yet there was nothing improper on her side: she did not run into the match inconsiderately; there was no want of foresight.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Find a job that recognizes your gift of foresight because you know what is coming up over the distant horizon—as an Aquarius, that is your talent.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And then, to show that it was purely business foresight and not prejudice, "Hava da drink on da house—good friends justa da same."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To my inexperience this appeared to bring the whole matter to a conclusion, but I had underrated the foresight of those who arrange these affairs, and also the advantages which made Crawley Down so favourite a rendezvous.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way that every point tells, she may well feel that her part is finished, and that she can henceforth leave the rest to us.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)