foreseeing
Knowing before happening
Foreseeing is anticipating or knowing something before it happens.
The word suggests mental vision of future events: Not foreseeing the storm, we left without umbrellas.
Someone foreseeing consequences acts with that knowledge in mind.
The present participle of foresee, it often appears in legal and financial contexts: foreseeing potential liability, foreseeing market shifts.
Foretelling of future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
clairvoyance · precognition · vision · revelation · omen · portent · presage · harbinger
Belief about future outcomes
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- presentimentVague sense of future events
dread · prospect · awaiting · sense · inkling · hunch · gut feeling · suspicion
Estimating future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
- prognosisPredicted disease course
modeling · trend analysis · risk assessment · estimation · calculation · conjecture · speculation · hypothesis
Arranging for future events
- preparationArranging things in advance
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- forethoughtPlanning before acting
- contingencyUncertain possible event
provisioning · hedging · safeguarding · precaution · anticipatory · proactive · forward-thinking · long-term thinking
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayingForetelling future events
augury · clairvoyance · precognition · vision · revelation · omen · portent · presage · harbinger · sibyl
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
presentiment · dread · prospect · awaiting · sense · inkling · hunch · gut feeling · suspicion · misgiving
forecasting
Estimating future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
prognosis · modeling · trend analysis · risk assessment · estimation · calculation · conjecture · speculation · hypothesis · probability
planning
Arranging for future events
- preparationArranging things in advance
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- forethoughtPlanning before acting
contingency · provisioning · hedging · safeguarding · precaution · anticipatory · proactive · forward-thinking · long-term thinking · risk mitigation
- Predictionprediction, forecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation
- forecasting methodspredicting, projecting, estimating, anticipating, extrapolating
- anticipationanticipating, expectation, expectancy, expecting, awaiting
- imaginingimagining, visualizing, envisioning, picturing, conceiving
foreseeinghindsight
Recognition after the fact
looking back · retrospection · remembering · recollecting · reviewing
foreseeingshortsighted
Unable to see ahead
myopic · improvident · oblivious · unprepared · half-baked
see, sight, seeing, foresee, foresight, seer, unforeseen, foreseen, foreseeable