divining
Seeking hidden knowledge
Divining is the practice of seeking hidden knowledge or locating something through intuitive or supernatural means.
A divining rod—a forked stick—supposedly dips when held over underground water.
More broadly, to divine is to perceive through insight rather than evidence: She was skilled at divining his moods from the smallest gestures.
Thin rigid stick
- pendulumSuspended swinging weight
- waterClear essential liquid
- witchingPerforming magical rites
- dowserOne who locates underground water
underground · streams · minerals · veins · locate · search · detection · hazel
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- omensProphetic signs or warnings
portent · presage · harbinger · foretelling · prognostication · sibyl · revelation · prophetic
Unproven inner sense
- gutDigestive tract, or instinct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
perception · feeling · awareness · discernment · sensitivity · innate · subconscious · knowing
rod
Thin rigid stick
dowser · underground · streams · minerals · veins · locate · search · detection · hazel · bobbing
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
omens · portent · presage · harbinger · foretelling · prognostication · sibyl · revelation · prophetic · foresight
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gutDigestive tract, or instinct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
insight · perception · feeling · awareness · discernment · sensitivity · innate · subconscious · knowing · sensing
esoteric
Accessible to few
grimoire · conjuring · incantation · talismans · amulets · charms · coven · theurgy · cabala · séance
- Predictionprediction, forecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation
- divinationfortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot, tarot cards
- conjecturinghypothesizing, theorizing, speculating, conjecturing, supposing
- forecasting methodspredicting, projecting, estimating, anticipating, extrapolating
diviningscientific measurement
Quantified experimental observation
measuring · calculating · experimenting · proving · verifying
diviningknowing
Possessing awareness or insight
confirming · establishing · ascertaining · determining · demonstrating
diviningdetecting
Perceiving something present
sensing · perceiving · discovering · uncovering · finding
- divining rodForked branch for finding water
- divinity schoolInstitution for theological education
- water diviningDetecting underground water sources
- divinity of ChristJesus being fully God