English noun: foretelling |
1. | foretelling (communication) a statement made about the future |
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| Synonyms | forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
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| Broader (hypernym) | statement |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | divination, extropy, forecast, fortunetelling, horoscope, meteorology, prognosis, prophecy, weather forecasting |
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2. | foretelling (cognition) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means |
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| Synonyms | divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| Broader (hypernym) | prognostication, prophecy, vaticination |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | arithmancy, chirology, chiromancy, dowse, dowsing, geomancy, hydromancy, lithomancy, necromancy, oneiromancy, onomancy, palm reading, palmistry, pyromancy, rhabdomancy |
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