VATICINATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

Synonyms:

prognostication; prophecy; vaticination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("vaticination" is a kind of...):

anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vaticination"):

crystal gazing (staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events)

divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)

Derivation:

vaticinate (foretell through or as if through the power of prophecy)

vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)