far-sightedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From far-sighted + -ness.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of farsightedness.
alt of farsightedness
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.
2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 87: