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Foresight vs Prospective - What's the difference?

foresight | prospective |

As nouns the difference between foresight and prospective

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while prospective is the scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.

As an adjective prospective is

likely or expected to happen or become.

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

    prospective

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Likely or expected to happen or become.
    • Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.
  • Anticipated in the near or far future.
  • Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
  • * Milton
    • Time's long and dark prospective glass.
  • Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
  • * Sir J. Child
    • The French king and king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective , too, in this affair.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
  • (obsolete) A perspective glass.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • (informal, often plural) A (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
    • Would you like to show the prospective around?
    I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
  • * 2006 , Verve: The Spirit of Today's Woman , volume 14, issues 4-6, page 114:
    • At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.

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