1
: an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience
Through foresight she could tell what the outcome would be.
2
: provident care : prudence
had the foresight to invest his money wisely
3
: an act of looking forward
also
: a view forward
foresightedly
adverb
foresightedness
noun
Examples of foresight in a Sentence
They had the foresight to invest the money wisely.
His career choice shows a lack of foresight.
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Michael Sheldrick, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
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Michael Sheldrick, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
McNally had the foresight, according to company lore, to bury two of their printing machines in the sand at Lake Michigan.
—Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
More grounded in reality than his tech-utopian comrades and financially ascendant thanks to his skeptic’s foresight about crises like the one Ven has caused, Jeff is reluctant to bail out his frenemy.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 May 2025
Managing these attacks required a degree of foresight, a mental map of the neighborhood, even a sense of a human week’s rhythm—understanding, for instance, the difference between weekday rush hours and weekend lulls.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 May 2025
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“Foresight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foresight. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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foresight
noun
fore·sight
ˈfō(ə)r-ˌsīt 
ˈfȯ(ə)r-
1
: the act or power of foreseeing
2
: care or preparation for the future
had the foresight to invest his money wisely
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