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Soothsaying

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The art or practice of foretelling events.

n. A prediction; a prophecy.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A method of foretelling the future.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A true saying; truth.

n. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions.

n. A prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A foretelling; a prediction; especially, the prognostication of a diviner; also, the art or occupation of divination.

n. A true saying; truth.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

Word Usage

"One area where no buy signal is being triggered is in municipal bonds; a factor of investors continuing to panic out of them on the word of soothsaying whimsy and in light of heated headlines noting the possibility of municipal insolvencies exacerbated by underfunded pension liabilities."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

prophecy prognostication vaticination

Hyponym

pyromancy arithmancy palmistry rhabdomancy chirology

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

truth prediction prophecy prognostication

Verb Stem

soothsay

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

psychokinesis visioning precognition thought transference mindmeld