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Prophecy

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

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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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Foretelling 76% connected

of Foretell

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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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Prognostication 76% connected

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

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Narrower term 4

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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Foretelling 76% connected

of Foretell

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Oracle 76% connected

The answer of a god, or some person reputed to be a god, to an inquiry respecting some affair or future event, as the success of an enterprise or bat…

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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.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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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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Divine 74% connected

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

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Divine 74% connected

Of or belonging to God; as, divine perfections; the divine will.

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Divination 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Prognostication 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Vaticination 92% connected

Prediction; prophecy.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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