prophesying
Declaring what's coming
Prophesying is declaring what will happen in the future, especially as if by divine inspiration or supernatural insight.
Religious prophets prophesy; so do fortune-tellers and self-appointed visionaries.
The word extends to confident predictions generally: Economic analysts have been prophesying a recession for months.
To prophesy is distinct from to prophesize, though both forms exist.
Forecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- soothsayingForetelling future events
- foretellingAnnouncing future events
presage · foresight · precognition · anticipation · foreknowledge · premonition · portent · augury
One who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
- divinerOne who foretells events
augur · clairvoyant · fortune-teller · shaman · medium · mystic · astrologer · Nostradamus
Foretelling through mystical means
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
- palmistryReading hands for fortunes
necromancy · channeling · visions · dreams · trance · ecstasy · utterance · oracle
Surprising disclosed truth
- theophanyVisible appearance of deity
- messianicRelating to a savior
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- deityWorshipped supernatural being
scripture · covenant · vision · anointed · inspired · calling · holy · testament
Total civilizational collapse
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
tribulation · judgment · millennium · revelation · antichrist · beast · salvation · doomsday
prediction
Forecast of coming events
- forecastPrediction of future conditions
- prognosticationForetelling future events
- soothsayingForetelling future events
foretelling · presage · foresight · precognition · anticipation · foreknowledge · premonition · portent · augury · harbinger
seer
One who envisions futures
- sibylAncient female prophet
- prophetessWoman who foretells events
- soothsayerOne who predicts futures
diviner · augur · clairvoyant · fortune-teller · shaman · medium · mystic · astrologer · Nostradamus · Cassandra
divination
Foretelling through mystical means
- scryingVisionary surface-gazing
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- astrologyDivination by celestial positions
palmistry · necromancy · channeling · visions · dreams · trance · ecstasy · utterance · oracle · signs
revelation
Surprising disclosed truth
deity · scripture · covenant · vision · anointed · inspired · calling · holy · testament · apostolic
apocalypse
Total civilizational collapse
- eschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- end-timesProphesied concluding era
rapture · tribulation · judgment · millennium · revelation · antichrist · beast · salvation · doomsday · cataclysm
- Predictionprediction, forecasting, forecast model, estimation, extrapolation
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- preachingsermonizing, homiletics, altar call, scripture reading, closing prayer
- imaginingimagining, visualizing, envisioning, picturing, conceiving
- forecasting methodspredicting, projecting, estimating, anticipating, extrapolating
prophesyingrecalling
Bringing to mind again
remembering · recollecting · reminiscing · chronicling · recording
prophesyingdoubting
Questioning the truth
questioning · hedging · equivocating · disclaiming · agnosticism
prophesyingobserving
Perceiving attentively
measuring · analyzing · deducing · hypothesizing · experimenting
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