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Foresight vs Forewit - What's the difference?

foresight | forewit |

As nouns the difference between foresight and forewit

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while forewit is timely knowledge; precaution; foresight or forewit can be one who puts himself forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism.

As a verb forewit is

(obsolete) to foreknow.

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

    forewit

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forwit, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Timely knowledge; precaution; foresight.
  • :One good forewit is worth two afterwits. — Saying/Proverb
    • Antonyms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) forwiten, from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To foreknow.

    • Etymology 3

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who puts himself forward as a leader in matters of taste or criticism.