future prediction

Anticipating coming events

Future prediction is forecasting what will happen—a redundant phrase since prediction already implies futurity.

The doubling adds emphasis or clarity in contexts where it might otherwise be ambiguous: The software's future prediction capabilities rely on machine learning.

Often the redundancy is unnecessary, and prediction alone suffices.

Related

crystal ball · crystal gazing · fortune teller · fortune cookie · foresight · premonition · omen · horoscope · tarot · vision · anticipation · educated guess · destiny · fate · clairvoyance · augury · soothsayer · trending

Opposites
temporal direction

future predictionhistorical record

Preserved account of past

historical account · hindsight · historical narrative · retrospection · memoir

epistemic certainty

future predictioneyewitness account

Testimony from direct observer

verified account · empirical observation · recorded history · certainty · known quantity

cognitive orientation

future predictionmemory

Mind's retention capacity

recollection · remembrance · reminiscence · recall · looking back

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G