Contingently vs. Foresight — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Contingently and Foresight
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Contingently
Liable but not certain to occur; possible
"All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Foresight
The ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future
He had the foresight to check that his escape route was clear
Contingently
Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional
Arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress.
Foresight
The front sight of a gun.
Contingently
Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable
Contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations.
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Foresight
A sight taken forwards.
Contingently
(Logic) True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true
A contingent proposition.
Foresight
The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.
Contingently
A group or detachment, as of troops or police, assigned to aid a larger force.
Foresight
Care in providing for the future
Spending all of your money at once shows little foresight.
Contingently
A representative group that is selected from or part of a larger group.
Foresight
The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
Contingently
An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
Foresight
The front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
Contingently
In a contingent manner; without foresight
Foresight
(surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
Contingently
In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
Foresight
The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
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
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