prophecy
If a fortune teller made a prophecy that you were going to become a billionaire in your lifetime, you’d be pretty excited. A prophecy is a prediction, or a magical look into the future.
The noun prophecy means a magical foreknowledge, although it can also be used in a playful way to describe an ordinary guess or prediction about the future. So you could say, “Her prophecy for the weather next week is incredibly depressing.” The word comes from the Greek prophetia — literally, “gift of interpreting the will of the gods”. The verb form is prophesy, or predict, and it’s spelled with an s instead of a c.
Definitions of prophecy
a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
-
synonyms:
divination-
types:
-
oraclea prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible
-
type of:
-
forecasting, foretelling, prediction, prognosticationa statement made about the future
-
oracle
knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
-
synonyms:
prognostication, vaticination-
types:
- show 12 types…
- hide 12 types…
-
crystal gazingstaring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events
-
divination, foretelling, fortune telling, soothsayingthe art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
-
arithmancydivination by means of numbers
-
dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancysearching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
-
geomancydivination 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)
-
hydromancydivination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides)
-
lithomancydivination by means of stones or stone talismans
-
necromancyconjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
-
oneiromancydivination through the interpretation of dreams
-
onomancydivination by the letters of a name
-
chirology, chiromancy, palm reading, palmistrytelling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
-
pyromancydivination by fire or flames
-
type of:
-
anticipation, prediction, previsionthe act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Word Family