| NOUN | communication | foretelling, prediction, forecasting, prognostication | a statement made about the future |
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| cognition | foretelling, divination, soothsaying, fortune telling | the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means |
| Sounds | faorteh'lihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | A statement made about the future. | |
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| Synonyms | prediction, forecasting, prognostication | |
| Narrower | extropy | The prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe |
| fortunetelling | The practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | |
| horoscope | A prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets | |
| meteorology, weather forecasting | predicting what the weather will be | |
| prognosis, forecast | A prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | |
| prophecy, divination | A prediction uttered under divine inspiration | |
| Broader | statement | A message that is stated or declared |
| Spanish | predicción, pronosticación, pronóstico | |
| Catalan | predicció, pronosticació, pronòstic | |
| Verbs | foretell | make a prediction about |
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