foreseeing

foreseeing

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree
English foresee
English -ing
English foreseeing

    From foresee + -ing.

    Verb

    foreseeing

    1. present participle and gerund of foresee
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    From Middle English foreseing, forseying, equivalent to foresee +‎ -ing.

    Noun

    foreseeing (plural foreseeings)

    1. The act by which something is foreseen; a prophetic vision.
      • 1932, James Branch Cabell, These Restless Heads:
        But at other times my magic is a true magic, and my looking runs very lightly over all the days which are to come before my client has quite done with earth's daylight; and at these times I must tell, will I or will I not, the truth about my foreseeings […]
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