forethought

1 planning or plotting in advance of acting [syn: premeditation]

2 judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care" [syn: caution, precaution, care]

English

Etymology

fore- thought

Noun

forethought

1. Thinking in advance, planning, anticipation.

   With a little forethought we'd have planned for this contingency and not been stuck here now.

Foresight or forethought may refer to:

• Has a sight of fours.
• foresight (futures studies)
• premonition
• precognition
• divination

proper names:

• Foresight Exchange, an online prediction market using play money
• Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization
• Foresight Linux, a distribution of free software
• Chanting the Light of Foresight, a 1987 composition by Terry Riley
• HMS Foresight (H68), a Royal Navy F class destroyer
• Forethought (company)
• [Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting] a publication of the International Institute of Forecasters.

See also

• Scientific foreknowledge in Sacred Texts

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