1. foreseeing - Noun
2. foreseeing - Verb
foreseeing
present participle of foresee
foreseeing (plural foreseeings)
The act by which something is foreseen; a prophetic vision.
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose. Isaac Asimov
The foreseeing of our attention is the will to give attention, is voluntary attention. Hermann Ebbinghaus
I seem but a dead man held on end To sink down soon.... O you could not know That such swift fleeing No soul foreseeing - Not even I - would undo me so! Thomas Hardy
The happiest man is the one who knows how to obtain the greatest sum of happiness without ever failing in the discharge of his duties, and the most unhappy is the man who has adopted a profession in which he finds himself constantly under the sad necessity of foreseeing the future. Giacomo Casanova
I shall have less cause to regret the carrying my intended purpose into effect, foreseeing that you may immediately fill with advantage, the vacancy which will presently happen. Henry Laurens
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. Shams Tabrizi