- divination
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)n. prediction, prophecy, augury, guess; sorcery.II(Roget's IV) n.Syn. augury, interpretation of omens, prediction, soothsaying, sorcery, calculation, foretelling, foreshadowing, palmistry, prognostics, prognostication, clairvoyance, prophecy, extrasensory perception, ESP, spirit-rapping, table-tipping, thaumaturgy, horoscopy, penetration, intimation, portent, insight, warning, fortunetelling, phrenology, astrology, graphology, tea-leaf reading, hieRomancy, necRomancy, hydRomancy, ichthyomancy, pyRomancy, crystal gazing, crystallomancy, sciomancy, ornithomancy, ophiomancy, dactyliomancy, Bibliomancy, anthropomancy, alectryomancy, catoptRomancy, psephomancy, alphitomancy, lithomancy, oneiRomancy, chiRomancy, aeRomancy, rhabdomancy, cleRomancy, aleuRomancy, axinomancy, belomancy, haruspicy, genethliacs, dowsing, Ouija board (trademark), casting the planchette, I Ching; see also forecast .III(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.prophecy, soothsaying, augury, prognostication, fortune-telling, foretelling, premonition, forecast, presentiment.WORD FIND• by animal droppings: scatomancy• by bird actions: auspice• by celestial positions: astrology• by choosing random passage in book, especially the Bible: bibliomancy• by communication with the dead: necromancy• by dirt figures: geomancy• by divining rod: rhabdomancy• by dreams: oneiromancy• by entrails of animals: haruspicy• by flight patterns of birds: ornithomancy• by lots: sortilege• by numbers: numerology• by shapes of melting wax: ceromancy• by water: hydromancyIV(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Something that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means: oracle, prophecy, soothsaying, vaticination, vision. See FORESIGHT.
English dictionary for students. 2013.