English > divination: 3 senses > noun 3, cognition| Meaning | The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means. |
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| Synonyms | foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling |
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| Narrower | arithmancy | divination by means of numbers |
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| dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy | searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod |
| geomancy | divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) |
| hydromancy | divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) |
| lithomancy | divination by means of stones or stone talismans |
| necromancy | Conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying |
| oneiromancy | divination through the interpretation of dreams |
| onomancy | divination by the letters of a name |
| palmistry, palm reading, chiromancy, chirology | telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand |
| pyromancy | divination by fire or flames |
| Broader | prophecy, prognostication, vaticination | knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) |
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| Spanish | adivinación |
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| Verbs | divine | perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers |
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