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Prognostication

The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.

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Broader term 7

Anticipation 76% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

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Augury 76% connected

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

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Foretoken 76% connected

Prognostic; previous omen.

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Prediction 76% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Prevision 76% connected

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

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Sign 76% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Auspice 76% connected

A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indicatio…

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Divination 76% connected

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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Foreboding 76% connected

of Forebode

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Forecast 76% connected

To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project.

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Foretelling 76% connected

of Foretell

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Horoscope 76% connected

The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of t…

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Meteorology 76% connected

The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.

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Prognosis 76% connected

The act or art of foretelling the course and termination of a disease; also, the outlook afforded by this act of judgment; as, the prognosis of hydro…

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Prophecy 76% connected

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

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Soothsaying 76% connected

A true saying; truth.

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Anticipate 74% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Anticipate 74% connected

To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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Prognostic 74% connected

Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

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Prognostic 74% connected

Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

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Prophetic 74% connected

Alt. of Prophetical

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Prophetic 74% connected

Alt. of Prophetical

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Prophetical 74% connected

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.

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Prophetical 74% connected

Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.

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Synonym 9

Foretelling 92% connected

of Foretell

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Omen 92% connected

An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a p…

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Portent 92% connected

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

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Prediction 92% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Presage 92% connected

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

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Prodigy 92% connected

Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed…

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Prognostic 92% connected

Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prophecy 92% connected

A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Vaticination 92% connected

Prediction; prophecy.

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