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