foreseeing

English

Etymology 1

From foresee +‎ -ing.

Verb

foreseeing

1. present participle and gerund of foresee

Derived terms

• foreseeingly
• unforeseeing

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 […]