What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Foresight vs Hindsight - What's the difference?

foresight | hindsight | Antonyms |

Hindsight is a antonym of foresight.



As nouns the difference between foresight and hindsight

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while hindsight is realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.

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

    hindsight

    English

    (split)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Realisation or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred
    • When you read " Seven Little Rabbits" at age 6 and read it again 15 years later, the hindsight you've developed in the time between will make you look at and think of the book much differently than you did the first time!
  • The rear sight of a firearm

    • Antonyms

    * foresight

    Derived terms

    * hindsightly * twenty-twenty hindsight