Foresight vs Recollection - What's the difference?
foresight | recollection |
The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
(surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which things can be recollected; remembrance
That which is recollected; something called to mind; a reminiscence.
(archaic) (also spelled re-collection) The act or practice of collecting or concentrating the mind; concentration; self-control.
As nouns the difference between foresight and recollection
is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while recollection is the act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance or recollection can be process of collecting again.foresight
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Noun
(-)- Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
Synonyms
* (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecyAntonyms
* hindsightDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Anagrams
* English abstract nounsrecollection
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Etymology 1
Via (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- ''Alas that distant event isn't within my recollection anymore.
- ''One of his earliest recollections ." - (Thomas Babington Macaulay).
- ''From such an education Charles contracted habits of gravity and recollection .