English noun: fortune telling | |||
1. | fortune telling (cognition) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | ||
Synonyms | divination, foretelling, soothsaying | ||
Broader (hypernym) | prognostication, prophecy, vaticination | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | arithmancy, chirology, chiromancy, dowse, dowsing, geomancy, hydromancy, lithomancy, necromancy, oneiromancy, onomancy, palm reading, palmistry, pyromancy, rhabdomancy | ||