(n.) Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infant survival may depend on foreknowledge of the pathology and prompt, directed efforts at bypassing the airway obstruction.
(2) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
(3) However, in a temporal forced choice experiment with foreknowledge of target position the difference between children and adults was reduced to 0.1 log units.
(4) The build-up to the killing and the victims' foreknowledge of it was captured in a letter the prosecution said was sent to Ntakirutimana by a group of Adventist pastors.
(5) However, it is inevitable that this is done with some foreknowledge; at least it is known that the test smears contain one or more special cases.
(6) Wallau had expressed the view that, even if Ali had foreknowledge of how boxing would affect his physical condition, “If he had it to do all over, he’d live his life the same way.
(7) The data indicate that a single pretreatment Widal test in suspected enteric fever cases is of definite diagnostic value, but that the results must be interpreted with caution and foreknowledge of the test's shortcomings and limitations.
(8) Effective prescribing of anticonvulsants requires foreknowledge of baseline pharmacokinetic data.
(9) The simplified description of the phenomena involved in MR which follows is intended to be comprehensive and does not require foreknowledge of classical physics, quantum mechanics, fluency with mathematical formulae or an understanding of image reconstruction.
(10) Once I would have criticised such a sentiment severely, but of certain parts of life there can be no foreknowledge.
(11) This foreknowledge allowed the vast majority of the side-chain resonances to be discerned in J-correlated spectra.
(12) This loss was maintained in a spatial forced choice experiment without foreknowledge of target location.
(13) These principles are: (1) that outcome foreknowledge should be disclosed and discussed; (2) that key data in the study should be well understood to include what influences it and its inherent variability; and (3) that detailed exposure characterization, whether it be occupational or personal risk factors, should be an integral part of all studies.
(14) Supporters of the drive towards early diagnosis say foreknowledge that someone may develop dementia can let them draw up instructions for their future care, put their financial affairs in order and make lifestyle changes, such as eating healthily and taking more exercise, that will slow the disease's progress.
(15) Foreknowledge of the presence of the aneurysm proved to be life saving when an acute deterioration required emergency surgery.
(16) Foreknowledge of the previous sterilization resulted in delay of surgical management.
(17) Excision of such an hourglass tumor without foreknowledge of such extension may lead to serious spinal cord complications.
(18) This method demonstrates significant generality and predictive power without requiring foreknowledge of any native structural details.
(19) Foreknowledge of disease may lead to better decision making about life-style or reproduction, but depression or suicide may also result.
(20) Foreknowledge of location of the test line within the matrix improved the threshold further, even if the whole matrix was displaced to different retinal positions.
Foresight
Definition:
(n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
(n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said a two-and-half-year analysis by the government's Foresight programme on the implications for coastal defences had more impact in the corridors of power than any other research on the effects of climate change that he presented.
(2) One is over whether, with more foresight and better planning, an awful lot of money and heartache could have been saved.
(3) If TfL had wanted to enforce the rules and had the inclination and foresight to do so, we would not be in this position now,” Griffin says.
(4) Nobel's foresight is a reminder to us all that peace must be created, maintained, and advanced, and it is indeed possible for one individual to have an extraordinary impact.
(5) Out of this foresight came both formal and nonformal educational offerings.
(6) Has Piqué even had the foresight to write a book and make the title a hashtag?
(7) The first part of the mostly theoretical foresight will be followed by the attempt of a practical method and of preliminary results supposing a future simplification in the sense of a pantomographic method according to Paatero for the measurement of the alveolar regression.
(8) The deepening division between rich and poor (or salary between chief executive and blue-collar worker), the continuing appeal of affirmative action and multiculturalism to liberals and the relative absence of democratic social foresight and planning all pointed to basic and unresolved dilemmas.
(9) The difficulties inherent in planning and implementing a program in another country are numerous; however, with foresight and ample time for planning, the benefits to both students and faculty in the host and home institutions can outweigh the drawbacks.
(10) While interpretation of transference is neither a panacea nor uniquely mutative with adolescents and young adults, the authors believe it has an important role to play in expressive psychotherapy if used judiciously and with foresight.
(11) The threat of new drugs being available via the internet emerged in Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs , the 2005 review from Foresight, the government's future thinktank.
(12) Rather than intelligent foresight, or a difference in the mindset of those in power, he suggests the Danish capital’s avoidance of major carriageways is down to good fortune.
(13) Even defectors describe him as a skilful politician with the foresight to understand that nuclear diplomacy is a marathon, not a sprint.But the rapid rise of his youngest son, about whom the world knew practically nothing until his first official appearance with his father in 2010, has produced a vainglorious leader who, says Kim Kwang-jin, is "running too fast and doesn't know how to slow down".
(14) But it is Japan, which in 1912 had the foresight to donate thousands of cherry trees to the US, that wields the greatest cultural influence in Washington through its embassy.
(15) If foresighted leaders do not counter these voices then wrong will prevail from the inaction of good people.
(16) That evening, once again with a large plate of Celto-Iberian goatmeat in front of me, I raise a glass to Doña Pakyta and toast her foresight in preserving this stark and hypnotic landscape.
(17) Leslie says: “The primary problem was the banking crisis, and if you’d had the foresight that the banking crisis was coming, it stands to reason you could have braced yourself more for that crisis – and that obviously applies in fiscal terms, too.” Neat and softly spoken, 42-year-old Leslie knows what it’s like to lose a parliamentary seat: elected to Westminster in 1997 at the tender age of 24, for the seat of Shipley, in West Yorkshire, and served as a junior minister from 2001.
(18) Professor Sandy Thomas, director of Foresight's "Tackling Obesities: future choices" report, also dismissed the idea of a pre-watershed ban.
(19) Foresight , a UK government research body, says that by 2060 there will be 192 million more people living in vulnerable urban coastal floodplains, mainly in Asia.
(20) These require maturity and creativity and foresight.