foresight
foresight — noun
1. the ability to make thoughtful preparations now, based on what you believe will
the ability to make thoughtful preparations now, based on what you believe will happen later
The Watanabe family had the foresight to buy flood insurance before the storm season.
collocation: have the foresight (to do something)
Ritu showed remarkable foresight by saving money for her children's university education.
collocation: show (remarkable) foresight
Thanks to Tariq's foresight, the office had backup generators ready before the blackout.
Building the highway extra wide in the 1960s was an act of great foresight.
Without the foresight to store drinking water, the town struggled after the earthquake.
- forethought
focuses more on careful thinking and preparation before acting than on seeing future events
- prudence
emphasises caution and sensible financial or practical choices rather than anticipation
- prescience
a more formal or literary term that suggests almost supernatural knowledge of what will happen
- anticipation
focuses on expecting something to happen rather than actively preparing for it
- hindsight
understanding of an event after it has happened, the opposite of looking forward
- shortsightedness
lack of concern for the future or for long-term consequences
文法句型
have the foresight to + infinitive
show / display foresight
with / without foresight
用法筆記
Commonly followed by an infinitive clause ('to + verb') to describe the specific preventive action that was planned in advance.