divination
noun/ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən/
Etymology From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.
1
The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2
The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3
An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.
- Synonyms
- divination
- Derived terms
- dice divination, runic divination, star divination
- Related terms
- divine, divinatory, predivination, Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hyponyms
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