foresight

1. The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

   Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: Printed [by Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 932900760 ↗, book IV, stanza 1, page 1 ↗:

     The rugged forhead that with graue foreſight / Welds kingdomes cauſes, & affaires of ſtate; {{...}

2. the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
3. (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object

• (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

• hindsight

• foresee
• backsight

• French: clairvoyance, prévoyance, prescience
• German: Voraussicht, Hellsichtigkeit
• Italian: lungimiranza, preveggenza, avvedimento
• Portuguese: presciência
• Russian: предви́дение
• Spanish: previsión, profecía, adivinación, clarividencia, presciencia

• Russian: му́шка