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Provident vs Foresighty - What's the difference?

provident | foresighty |

As adjectives the difference between provident and foresighty

is that provident is possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future while foresighty is foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.

provident

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future.

    • Derived terms

    * providence * provident fund * provident society

    foresighty

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Foresighted; provident; cautious; careful.
  • * 1801 , James Thomson, Poems, in the Scottish dialect :
    • Wi' thoughts like these hid in her breast, Awa flew the foresighty beast, [...]
  • * 1856 , Anna Cabot Lowell, Seed-grain for thought and discussion :
    • Surely, my dear lady, you are, as they say in the north, ' fearfu' foresighty .'

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