prognostications
Prophecies of outcomes
Prognostications are predictions or forecasts, especially about future events.
The word carries a formal or slightly grandiose tone, often used when the prediction seems weighty or pretentious: His prognostications about the economy proved wildly wrong.
It can also be used ironically for mundane guesses: What are your prognostications for tonight's game?
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- fortune-tellingClaiming to predict futures
clairvoyance · portent · omen · seer · vision · diviner · tarot · astrology
Sign of future calamity
- signMark conveying information
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- presageIndicate beforehand
forewarning · ill omen · dark clouds · writing on the wall · red flag · alarm · cautionary · doom
Forecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- outlookAttitude toward the future
- estimateInformed guess at quantity
analysis · trend · modeling · extrapolation · scenario · anticipation · futurism · speculation
Identification of illness
- outcomeFinal result of events
- survival rateShare of survivors measured
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- terminalAt the endpoint
remission · staging · biomarker · symptom · life expectancy · clinical · test results · mortality
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
fortune-telling · clairvoyance · portent · omen · seer · vision · diviner · tarot · astrology · crystal ball
portent
Sign of future calamity
- signMark conveying information
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
presage · forewarning · ill omen · dark clouds · writing on the wall · red flag · alarm · cautionary · doom · apocalyptic
prediction
Forecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- projectionSomething that extends outward
- outlookAttitude toward the future
estimate · analysis · trend · modeling · extrapolation · scenario · anticipation · futurism · speculation · probability
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- outcomeFinal result of events
- survival rateShare of survivors measured
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
terminal · remission · staging · biomarker · symptom · life expectancy · clinical · test results · mortality · morbidity
- premonitionspremonitions, forebodings, presentiments, forewarnings, omens
- astrologyastrology, zodiac, horoscope, horoscopes, birth chart
- early booksincunabula, folios, quartos, octavos, first folio
prognosticationshindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · postmortems · retrospectives · histories · autopsies
prognosticationscertainties
Assured truths
historical record · actualities · known quantities · fait accompli · proven results
prognosticationsobservations
Noted perceptions
eyewitness accounts · documentation · reportage · records · testimony