far-sightedness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From far-sighted + -ness.
Noun[edit]
- Alternative form of farsightedness
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87:
- Marc Brunel was a royalist refugee from revolutionary France. He specialised in ideas that were ahead of their time - of which he seems to have had one a week - and he had a gift for making those around him seem churlish and reactionary in comparison to his own far-sightedness.
References[edit]
- “far-sightedness”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.