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Circumspection vs Foresight - What's the difference?

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Circumspection is a related term of foresight.


As nouns the difference between circumspection and foresight

is that circumspection is attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent while foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

circumspection

English

Noun

  • Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; consideration of all that is pertinent.
  • Caution; watchfulness; vigilance.

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    foresight

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
    • Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
  • the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
  • (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

    • Synonyms

    * (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

    Antonyms

    * hindsight

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Related terms

    * foresee * backsight

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