prophecy
/ˈprɒfɪsi
/noun (plural prophecies)
1A prediction of what will happen in the future: a bleak prophecy of war and ruin...
- Who's making bold prophecies for the future of online retail?
- It tells her prophecies and predictions, and sometimes she can speak to the deceased with it.
- This was predicted in many prophecies, old and recent, throughout the world.
Synonyms
prediction, forecast, prognostication, prognosis, divination, augury
rare prognostic
1.1 [mass noun] The faculty or practice of prophesying: the gift of prophecy...
- Humans do not have the gift of prophecy, nor do we always have the most accurate knowledge.
- There was an explosion of oral communication in story, preaching, teaching, worship, prophecy, and so on.
- His views on the nature of prophecy were unpopular among religious scholars.
Synonyms
foretelling the future, forecasting the future, fortune telling, crystal-gazing, prediction, second sight, clairvoyance, prognostication, divination, soothsaying
rare vaticination, augury, sortilege, auspication
Origin
Middle English: from Old French profecie, via late Latin from Greek prophēteia, from prophētēs (see prophet).