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Foretaste vs Foresight - What's the difference?

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Foretaste is a related term of foresight.


As nouns the difference between foretaste and foresight

is that foretaste is a taste beforehand; foresmack while foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

As a verb foretaste

is to taste beforehand.

foretaste

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A taste beforehand; foresmack.
  • A sample taken in anticipation; enjoyment taken in advance.

    • See also

    * aftertaste

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To taste beforehand.
  • To taste before possession; have previous experience of; enjoy by anticipation.
  • To taste before another.
  • *1667 , John Milton, Paradise lost :
    • [...] foretast'd fruit, Profan'd first by the serpent [...]

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    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