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Foresight vs Seer - What's the difference?

foresight | seer |

As nouns the difference between foresight and seer

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while seer is (seasonal energy efficiency ratio).

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)

    seer

    English

    Etymology 1

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of see; one who sees something; an eyewitness.
  • Someone who foretells the future; a clairvoyant, prophet, soothsayer or diviner.
  • Etymology 2

    See sihr.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns ----