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Provident vs Visionary - What's the difference?

provident | visionary |

As adjectives the difference between provident and visionary

is that provident is possessing, exercising, or demonstrating great care and consideration for the future while visionary is having vision or foresight.

As a noun visionary is

someone who has visions; a seer.

provident

English

Adjective

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

    • Derived terms

    * providence * provident fund * provident society

    visionary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having vision or foresight
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
  • imaginary or illusory
  • prophetic or revelatory
  • * Thomson
    • The visionary hour / When musing midnight reigns.
  • idealistic or utopian
    • a visionary scheme or project
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Noun

    (visionaries)
  • someone who has visions; a seer
  • an impractical dreamer
  • someone who has positive ideas about the future