foretelling

Noun
  1. A statement made about the future (synset 106761683)
    is a type of: statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
    subtypes:
    • extropy - the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe
    • fortunetelling - the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment)
    • horoscope - a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets
    • meteorology, weather forecasting - predicting what the weather will be
    • forecast, prognosis - a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
    • divination, prophecy - a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
    same as: forecasting, prediction, prognostication
  2. The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means (synset 105784209)
    is a type of: prognostication, prophecy, vaticination - knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
    subtypes:
    • arithmancy - divination by means of numbers
    • dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy - searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
    • geomancy - divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another)
    • hydromancy - divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
    • lithomancy - divination by means of stones or stone talismans
    • necromancy - conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
    • oneiromancy - divination through the interpretation of dreams
    • onomancy - divination by the letters of a name
    • chirology, chiromancy, palm reading, palmistry - telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
    • pyromancy - divination by fire or flames
    same as: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying

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