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Foresight vs Farsee - What's the difference?

foresight | farsee |

As a noun foresight

is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

As a verb farsee is

to see at or from a distance.

foresight

English

Noun

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  • 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

    Anagrams

    * English abstract nouns

    farsee

    English

    Verb

  • To see at or from a distance.
  • *1997 , Julian May, Magnificat :
    • They set off again, the tall, elegant human and the violet-skinned exotic, too abstracted to farsee the person waiting for them in the shadows a few dozen meters ahead.
  • *2008 , Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void :
    • “That's a long way to farsee , even for you.” “The ge-eagle helps,” he admitted. “Cheat!” Edeard laughed.
  • To see by foresight; see clairvoyantly; view or sense telepathically.
  • *2006 , Arthur Goldstuck, The hitchhiker's guide to going mobile :
    • As Yoda would put it, if you want to 'farsee' into your future needs, first make sure your homework you have done.

    Derived terms

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