Foresight vs Vision - What's the difference?
foresight | vision |
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
(label) The sense or ability of sight.
Something seen; an object perceived visually.
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, chapter=7, title= (label) Something imaginary one thinks one sees.
(label) Something unreal or imaginary; a creation of fancy.
(label) An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires.
(label) A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance.
(label) A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.
As nouns the difference between foresight and vision
is that foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future while vision is the sense or ability of sight.As a verb vision is
to imagine something as if it were to be true.foresight
English
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 nounsvision
English
(wikipedia vision)Noun
- For to a vision so apparent rumour / Cannot be mute
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. […] Yes, the quest was ended, the Lost Oasis was the Found!}}
- (John Locke)