farsight means the faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience. It carries an Arena rating of 1607, earned across 73 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, farsight ranks #1,622 of 17,134 for Most Malleable Words, #2,615 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #2,904 of 17,126 for Most Elegant Words, #3,807 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books.
Why “farsight” is a great word
FARSIGHT — [Noun] The faculty of looking or planning far ahead; prescience. From the English 'far' (distant) + 'sight' (vision, the act of seeing). Unlike 'foresight,' which implies prudent calculation from present evidence, or 'myopia,' which denotes a crippling focus on the immediate, farsight is the inherent, often visionary capacity to perceive the distant shape of things. It is the strategist’s gaze across a map of decades, the architect seeing a cathedral in a bare foundation trench, and the quiet chill of knowing autumn in the first green bud of spring—a lonely clarity that inhabits a world no one else yet sees.
Etymology
From far + sight.
noun
- The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
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