Far-sightedness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of farsightedness. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From far-sighted + -ness.
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