Word for 'Understanding future consequences' [closed]

foresight (dictionary.com)

  1. care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.

  2. the act or power of foreseeing; prevision; prescience.

  3. an act of looking forward.

  4. knowledge or insight gained by or as by looking forward; a view of the future.

  5. Surveying.

    a) a sight or reading taken on a forward point.

    b) (in leveling) a rod reading on a point the elevation of which is to be determined.