FOREHANDEDNESS Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

forehandedness

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Definition of forehandedness

as in street smarts

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Noun

All that’s been missing, in the president’s view, is a Fed chair with Greenspan’s foresightedness.

— Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
All that's been missing, in the president’s view, is a Fed chair with Greenspan’s foresightedness.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026

Definition of foresightedness

Noun

Unlike during puberty and pregnancy, the menopausal transition—the moment the body is going through menopause—doesn’t appear linked to an overall decrease in cortical gray matter volume.

— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
The researchers found that London taxi drivers had measurably more gray matter in the posterior hippocampus, a brain area tied to storing large-scale spatial maps.

— Hatim Sharif, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of gray matter

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Before middle age, the two main vision disorders are myopia and hyperopia, or nearsightedness and farsightedness.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
Given that Morocco tends to present itself as being ahead of other countries in the region, a lack of farsightedness over such a basic issue is highly unusual.

— Simon Hughes, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

Definition of farsightedness

Noun

Perhaps showrunner and co-creator Ian Brennan showed restraint, even foresight, by keeping the Floridian killer out of Season 3’s meta movie storyline.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Sep. 2026
Yet the techno-vangelists of Silicon Valley aren’t necessarily gifted with foresight, either.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of foresight

Noun

Like any leadership capability, judgment can be developed intentionally.

— Nick Leighton, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Barisone, who’s in his early sixties, with a big Will Ferrell chin and a muscular build, can hold a conversation about his own good judgment, and the iniquity of his enemies, while riding a horse and monitoring his own reflection.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of judgment

Noun

Administration calls them common sense Last year, Democrats worried that Trump might intervene in off-year elections in California, Virginia and elsewhere, only to have voting go smoothly with no clashes with the federal government.

— Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
That’s not to absolve individuals from common sense or basic decency.

— Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of common sense

Noun

Anheuser-Busch will have to see how viewers react to its latest ad to determine if consumers think the Clydesdales still present good horse sense or represent a horse of a different color.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
His words of wisdom are tinged with wit and old-fashioned horse sense.

— Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2024

Definition of horse sense

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