presages
Hints at coming
Presages is the third-person singular of presage, meaning to serve as an omen or warning of something to come: The dark clouds presage a storm.
As a noun, a presage is itself a sign or warning: The economic indicators were presages of recession.
The word carries a literary or formal tone, suggesting foreboding rather than neutral prediction.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
foreboding · sign · warning · herald · augury · auspice · foretoken · ill omen
State of awaiting something
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
- estimationApproximate value judgment
conjecture · trend · indicator · bellwether · early warning · signal · precursor · preview
Predict through revelation
- predictDeclare future outcomes
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayingForetelling future events
prognostication · seer · vision · revelation · fortune-telling · augur · clairvoyance · precognition
portent
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
foreshadowing · foreboding · sign · warning · herald · augury · auspice · foretoken · ill omen · dark cloud
anticipation
State of awaiting something
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- extrapolationExtending data beyond bounds
estimation · conjecture · trend · indicator · bellwether · early warning · signal · precursor · preview · harbinger
prophesy
Predict through revelation
- predictDeclare future outcomes
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
soothsaying · prognostication · seer · vision · revelation · fortune-telling · augur · clairvoyance · precognition
presagesrecounts
Narrates or re-tallies
chronicles · recalls · commemorates · remembers · memorializes