FORETELLING
Dictionary entry overview: What does foretelling mean?
• FORETELLING (noun)
The noun FORETELLING has 2 senses:
1. a statement made about the future
2. the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
Familiarity information: FORETELLING used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FORETELLING (noun)
Meaning:
A statement made about the future
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
forecasting; foretelling; prediction; prognostication
Hypernyms ("foretelling" is a kind of...):
statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foretelling"):
forecast; prognosis (a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop)
meteorology; weather forecasting (predicting what the weather will be)
horoscope (a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets)
fortunetelling (the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment))
extropy (the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe)
divination; prophecy (a prediction uttered under divine inspiration)
Meaning:
The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
fortune telling; soothsaying; foretelling; divination
Hypernyms ("foretelling" is a kind of...):
prognostication; prophecy; vaticination (knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foretelling"):
arithmancy (divination by means of numbers)
pyromancy (divination by fire or flames)
chirology; chiromancy; palm reading; palmistry (telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand)
onomancy (divination by the letters of a name)
oneiromancy (divination through the interpretation of dreams)
necromancy (conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying)
lithomancy (divination by means of stones or stone talismans)
hydromancy (divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides))
geomancy (divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another))
dowse; dowsing; rhabdomancy (searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod)
