Anticipation
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- Date: 14th century
Definitions
- 1 a : a prior action that takes into account or forestalls a later action
- b : the act of looking forward; especially : pleasurable expectation
- 2 : the use of money before it is available
- 3 a : visualization of a future event or state
- 4 : the early sounding of one or more tones of a succeeding chord to form a temporary dissonance
Description
A review, analysis, and synthesis of past definitions and usages of the foresight concept into a generic definition, in order to make the concept measurable has classified foresight as a behavior
Specifically, foresight has been defined as:
"Degree of analyzing present contingencies and degree of moving the analysis of present contingencies across time, and degree of analyzing a desired future state or states a degree ahead in time with regard to contingencies under control, as well as degree of analyzing courses of action a degree ahead in time to arrive at the desired future state."[1]