prognostication
Saying what's coming
Prognostication is the act of predicting future events, or the prediction itself.
The word carries a slightly formal or archaic flavor, often appearing in contexts involving prophecy, astrology, or elaborate forecasting: His prognostications about the economy proved wildly optimistic.
Someone who makes prognostications is a prognosticator.
Authoritative wisdom source
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- seerOne who envisions futures
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
soothsaying · astrology · tarot · palmistry · scrying · omens · runes · sibyl
Forecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- trendDirection of change
- modelingSimulating or demonstrating form
scenario · extrapolation · estimate · accuracy · reliability · forecaster · meteorological · seasonal
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- signMark conveying information
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
- presageIndicate beforehand
foreshadowing · herald · foreboding · foretoken · auspice · boding · ravens · thunderclap
Guess from limited facts
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- guessworkConclusions drawn without proof
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
theorizing · inference · deduction · hunch · intuition · probability · likelihood · uncertainty
Final result of events
- remissionTemporary disease absence
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- terminalAt the endpoint
- chronicPersisting over time
acute · staging · biomarker · complication · deterioration · improvement
oracle
Authoritative wisdom source
clairvoyance · soothsaying · astrology · tarot · palmistry · scrying · omens · runes · sibyl · shaman
prediction
Forecast of coming events
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- trendDirection of change
modeling · scenario · extrapolation · estimate · accuracy · reliability · forecaster · meteorological · seasonal · electoral
portent
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- signMark conveying information
- forewarningNotice of future trouble
presage · foreshadowing · herald · foreboding · foretoken · auspice · boding · ravens · thunderclap · eclipse
conjecture
Guess from limited facts
- hypothesisTestable proposed explanation
- guessworkConclusions drawn without proof
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
surmise · theorizing · inference · deduction · hunch · intuition · probability · likelihood · uncertainty · contingency
outcome
Final result of events
chronic · acute · staging · biomarker · complication · deterioration · improvement
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- Predictionprediction, forecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- prophecyprophecy, prophet, seer, prophets, prophetess
- astronomystars, moon, sun, planet, planets
prognosticationhindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · recollection · remembrance · postmortem · memoir
prognosticationproof
Demonstration of truth
truth · fact · certainty · verification · demonstration
prognosticationobservation
Attentive watching or remark
eyewitness account · direct experience · reportage · testimony · record