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farsee

verb

Etymology

From far + see. Compare Dutch verziend (“farseeing, long-sighted”), German fernsehen (“to look from afar, watch television”).

  1. derived from *sekʷ-✻ — “to see, notice”
  2. inherited from *sehwaną✻ — “to see”
  3. inherited from *sehwan✻
  4. inherited from sēon
  5. inherited from seen
  6. compounded as farsee — “far + see”

Definitions

  1. To see at or from a distance.

    • They set off again, the tall, elegant human and the violet-skinned exotic, too abstracted to farsee the person waiting for them in the shadows a few dozen meters ahead.
    • “That's a long way to farsee, even for you.” “The ge-eagle helps,” he admitted. “Cheat!” Edeard laughed.

  2. To see by foresight

    To see by foresight; see clairvoyantly; view or sense telepathically.

    • As Yoda would put it, if you want to 'farsee' into your future needs, first make sure your homework you have done.

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Derived

farseer, farseeing, farsight

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for farsee. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA