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Foresight vs Foresighty - What's the difference?

foresight | foresighty |

As a noun foresight

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

As an adjective foresighty is

foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.

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

    foresighty

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
  • * 1801 , James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect :
    • Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]
  • * 1856 , Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion :
    • Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, ' fearfu' foresighty .'

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)