Foresight and Planning

Foresight

Foresight noun - The special ability to see or know about events before they actually occur.

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Planning and foresight are semantically related. in forethought topic. In some cases you can use "Planning" instead a noun "Foresight".

Planning noun - An act of formulating a program for a definite course of action.

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Foresight and planning are semantically related. You can use "Foresight" instead a noun "Planning".

Nearby Words: planned, planner

good	good foresight	good planning
poor	poor foresight	poor planning
actual	actual foresight	actual planning
massive	massive foresight	massive planning
Other adjectives: extreme, great, little, bad, economic, strategic, tactical.

Like Will's mother, his complete lack of foresight/planning ends up killing him.

Source: Film / In Time
However, the undisputed master of this trope is Scorpius, who always manages to survive situations which should without question have been fatal with nothing more than "foresight and planning".

Source: Death Is Cheap
When a plan is so ludicrously complicated that it relied more on luck than actual planning and foresight, it's a Gambit Roulette.

Source: Xanatos Gambit

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