foretellers
Those predicting outcomes
Foretellers are those who predict future events.
The word appears in religious, literary, and fantasy contexts more than everyday speech: The foretellers warned of coming disaster.
A foreteller might be a prophet, oracle, or anyone claiming knowledge of what's to come.
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- augurOne who reads omens
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
diviner · prognosticator · shaman · medium · clairvoyant · astrologer · magus · priestess
Divination card set
- runesOld Germanic script
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
- crystal ballFortune-teller's viewing sphere
scrying · necromancy · augury · tea leaves · geomancy · numerology · dowsing · entrails
Tomorrow trends scholar
- seerOne who envisions futures
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
- prognosticatorOne who foretells outcomes
- cassandraDisbelieved predictor of misfortune
sage · wise one · mystic · revelator · herald · harbinger · messenger
Foretelling of future events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
precognition · clairvoyance · premonition · forewarning · foreknowledge · anticipation · vision · revelation
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- fortuneWealth or destiny
providence · karma · inevitability · stars · wheel of fortune · lot · nemesis · fates
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
soothsayer · diviner · prognosticator · shaman · medium · clairvoyant · astrologer · magus · priestess · druid
tarot
Divination card set
- runesOld Germanic script
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
crystal ball · scrying · necromancy · augury · tea leaves · geomancy · numerology · dowsing · entrails · omens
futurist
Tomorrow trends scholar
- seerOne who envisions futures
- dreamerOne given to fantasies
- prognosticatorOne who foretells outcomes
cassandra · sage · wise one · mystic · revelator · herald · harbinger · messenger
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- presageIndicate beforehand
foresight · precognition · clairvoyance · premonition · forewarning · foreknowledge · anticipation · vision · revelation · pronouncement
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
fortune · providence · karma · inevitability · stars · wheel of fortune · lot · nemesis · fates · serendipity
- prophecyprophecy, prophet, seer, prophets, prophetess
- psychicspsychic, psychics, clairvoyant, clairvoyants, medium
foretellershistorians
Scholars of the past
chroniclers · recorders · archivists · annalists · documentarians
foretellersreporters
Those who gather news
witnesses · eyewitnesses · fact-checkers · verifiers · confirmers