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Foresight vs Vigilance - What's the difference?

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Foresight is a related term of vigilance.


As nouns the difference between foresight and vigilance

is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while vigilance is alert watchfulness.

foresight

English

Noun

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  • 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

    vigilance

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Alert watchfulness.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • Close and continuous attention.
  • * 1837 March 4, (Andrew Jackson), Farewell Address
    • But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.