FORTUNE TELLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fortune telling mean? 

• FORTUNE TELLING (noun)
  The noun FORTUNE TELLING has 1 sense:

1. the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

  Familiarity information: FORTUNE TELLING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTUNE TELLING (noun)

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 ("fortune telling" 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 "fortune telling"):

arithmancy (divination by means of numbers)

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)

pyromancy (divination by fire or flames)