foretelling
Saying what's coming
Foretelling is predicting or prophesying future events.
The word carries a mystical or literary flavor—fortune tellers and oracles engage in foretelling, while meteorologists simply forecast.
The oracle's foretelling proved accurate.
Ancient texts contained foretellings of disaster.
One who foreshadows
- portentSign of future calamity
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- auspiceProphetic token or portent
- signMark conveying information
foreshadowing · premonition · forewarning · foreboding · foretoken · ominous · boding · adumbration
Divination card set
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
- runesOld Germanic script
geomancy · tea-leaves · numerology · pendulum · dowsing · bibliomancy · lot-casting
Sign of future calamity
- cautionCareful attention to risk
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- alertWarning or watchfulness
heads-up · harbinger · tocsin · clarion · dire · cautionary · admonition
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
- estimationApproximate value judgment
conjecture · speculation · inference · scenario · modeling · analytics · trend · probability
One who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
visionary · revelation · apocalypse · eschatology · messiah · doomsday · end-times · scripture
One claiming supernatural perception
- mediumMiddle size or state
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- telepathyDirect mental communication
precognition · intuition · spiritualism · séance · vision · trance · otherworldly · supernatural
harbinger
One who foreshadows
sign · foreshadowing · premonition · forewarning · foreboding · foretoken · ominous · boding · adumbration · herald
tarot
Divination card set
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
runes · geomancy · tea-leaves · numerology · pendulum · dowsing · bibliomancy · lot-casting
portent
Sign of future calamity
- cautionCareful attention to risk
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- alarmUrgent warning signal
alert · heads-up · harbinger · tocsin · clarion · dire · cautionary · admonition
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
estimation · conjecture · speculation · inference · scenario · modeling · analytics · trend · probability · likelihood
seer
One who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- prophetDivinely inspired messenger
prophetess · visionary · revelation · apocalypse · eschatology · messiah · doomsday · end-times · scripture · cassandra
psychic
One claiming supernatural perception
- mediumMiddle size or state
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
telepathy · precognition · intuition · spiritualism · séance · vision · trance · otherworldly · supernatural · paranormal
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- Predictionforecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation, prognosis
- premonitionspremonitions, forebodings, presentiments, forewarnings, omens
- divinationdivination, tarot, tarot cards, tarot reading, tarot reader
- oraclessibyl, prophetess, seer, Delphi, prophecy
- prophecyprophecy, prophet, seer, prophets, prophetess
foretellinghindsight
Recognition after the fact
recounting · recollecting · retrospection · remembering · recalling
foretellingconfirming
Establishing truth of something
verifying · reporting · documenting · establishing · proving