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Foresight vs Foreseeability - What's the difference?

foresight | foreseeability |

As nouns the difference between foresight and foreseeability

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while foreseeability is the state or characteristic of being foreseeable; predictability.

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

    Anagrams

    * English abstract nouns

    foreseeability

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state or characteristic of being foreseeable; predictability.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 6, author=Danny Hakim, title=Two Misdemeanor Charges in Lake George Capsizing, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=In terms of criminal negligence, there clearly wasn’t the foreseeability that there may be in civil negligence.}}

    Antonyms

    * unforeseeability