Foresight vs. Foreknowledge — What's the Difference?

The ability to predict what will happen or be needed in the future

Foreknowledge is the concept of knowledge regarding future events. Types of foreknowledge include: Knowledge of predestination Prediction - Informed or uninformed guesses regarding future events Prognostication - Typically informed predictions about future events in a confined context Prophecy - Religious concept of divine knowledge, often with a consideration of future trends or events, and to some degree regarding events of an imminent, or divinely planned nature.

The front sight of a gun.

Knowledge or awareness of something before its existence or occurrence; prescience.

A sight taken forwards.

Knowing beforehand; foresight, precognition, prescience.

The ability or action of imagining or anticipating what might happen in the future.

Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.

Care in providing for the future

Knowledge of an event before it occurs

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

The front sight on a rifle or similar weapon

(surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.

Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

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.

Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future

Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing