Foresight vs. Hindsight: What's the Difference?
Foresight and Hindsight Definitions
Foresight
The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
Hindsight
Perception of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
Foresight
Care in providing for the future
Spending all of your money at once shows little foresight.
Hindsight
The rear sight of a firearm.
Foresight
The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
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Hindsight
Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.
Foresight
The front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
Hindsight
(rare) The rear sight of a firearm.
Foresight
(surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
Hindsight
Understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; as, hindsight is always clearer than foresight.
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Foresight
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Hindsight
Understanding the nature of an event after it has happened;
Hindsight is always better than foresight
Foresight
Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
This seems an unseasonable foresight.
A random expense, without plan or foresight.
Foresight
Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
Foresight
Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
Foresight
Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
