farsight
noun
farsight is a noun meaning “The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-S-I-G-H-T, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farsight is farsights.
What does farsight mean?
noun
- 1
The faculty of looking far ahead; farsightedness; prescience.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farsight
- farsights plural
- far-sight
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farsight?
Farsight appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does farsight come from?
From far + sight.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).