far-sightedness

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English

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Etymology

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From far-sighted +‎ -ness.

Noun

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far-sightedness (uncountable)

  1. 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.

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