foretellings
Visions of tomorrow
Foretellings are predictions or prophecies—statements about what will happen in the future.
The word carries a literary or mystical tone, suggesting omens or divination rather than weather forecasts: The old woman's foretellings proved eerily accurate.
In narrative, foretellings often hint at events to come, building anticipation or dread.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- signMark conveying information
- warningAlert about danger
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
presage · foreshadowing · augury · auspice · boding · forewarning · herald · token
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- clairvoyantOne who perceives beyond senses
diviner · prophet · revelation · prognostication · vision · apocalypse · scripture · Nostradamus
Prediction of future conditions
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
estimation · conjecture · calculation · extrapolation · foresight · horoscope · prognostic · speculation
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
inevitability · lot · fortune · karma · Fates · predetermined · inescapable · written
portent
Sign of future calamity
premonition · presage · foreshadowing · augury · auspice · boding · forewarning · herald · token · specter
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
clairvoyant · diviner · prophet · revelation · prognostication · vision · apocalypse · scripture · Nostradamus · Cassandra
forecast
Prediction of future conditions
- prognosisPredicted disease course
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- anticipationState of awaiting something
expectation · estimation · conjecture · calculation · extrapolation · foresight · horoscope · prognostic · speculation · modeling
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
providence · inevitability · lot · fortune · karma · Fates · predetermined · inescapable · written · sealed
foretellingshindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · recollections · postmortems · remembrances · chronicles