The action of forecast, v.

The action of anticipating, forestalling, preventing, or obstructing something.

The action of judging an event beforehand; prognostication, presaging. Obsolete.

The action or fact of representing or regarding (esp. as a rhetorical figure, originally in speech or writing) something in the future as already…

The action of forestalling in various senses; an instance of this. Anticipation in general; †prejudice.

The fact of being before or beforehand with some one or something else; anticipation.

Previous thought or consideration; anticipation; also, a thought beforehand.

The action of representing to oneself or realizing a thing before it occurs; apprehension beforehand, preconception.

Forecasting, prediction.

(usually in sense 2).