foresightedness
Definition
Noun: The quality of having or showing foresight; the ability to predict or plan for the future wisely. It is the characteristic of thinking ahead and preparing for future needs or eventualities.
Usage
Foresightedness is used to describe the capacity for prudent, long-term planning. It is a formal and somewhat rare noun, often used in contexts discussing strategy, management, or personal virtue. It emphasizes the wisdom and careful consideration involved in anticipating the future.
Examples
- The company's success was due to the CEO's remarkable foresightedness in investing in renewable energy a decade ago.
- Good governance requires a degree of foresightedness that looks beyond immediate political cycles.
- Her foresightedness in saving money allowed her family to weather the economic crisis comfortably.
Advanced Usage
- "With foresightedness": This prepositional phrase is used to describe an action taken with careful planning for the future.
- The policy was implemented with great foresightedness, considering demographic changes over the next fifty years.
Variants and Related Words
- Foresight (n): The more common and general term for the ability to predict or the action of predicting what will happen or be needed in the future.
- Foresighted (adj): Having or showing foresight.
- He was a foresighted leader who always planned for contingencies.
- Providence (n): The protective care of God or nature as a spiritual power; timely preparation for future eventualities (this second sense is closely related to ).
Synonyms
- Prudence: Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
- Forethought: Careful consideration of what will be necessary or may happen in the future.
- Prescience: The fact of knowing something in advance; foreknowledge (often implies a prophetic sense).
Antonyms
- Shortsightedness: Lack of foresight or long-term planning.
- Improvidence: The quality of not providing for the future; lack of foresight or thrift.
Noun
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providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
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