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Prediction vs Prophecy - What's the difference?

prediction | prophecy |

As nouns the difference between prediction and prophecy

is that prediction is a statement of what will happen in the future while prophecy is a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

As a verb prophecy is

dated form of lang=en.

prediction

English

(wikipedia prediction)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement of what will happen in the future.
    • "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." (in translation from Danish)

    Synonyms

    * (statement about the future) forecast, halseny, prognosis, prognostication

    prophecy

    English

    (wikipedia prophecy)

    Noun

    (prophecies)
  • A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
    • French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book .

    Derived terms

    * self-fulfilling prophecy * self-defeating prophecy

    Related terms

    * prophesy * prophet * prophetic

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • * 1967 , George King, The Five Temples Of God , The Aetherius Society (2014 edition), page 19:
    • The manipulation of these tremendous beneficient energies helped the world so well that the vast majority of these prophecied catastrophies did not happen.
  • * Marjorie Garber, “ ” (Quotation Marks)'' in 2001 , S.I. Salamensky, ''Talk, Talk, Talk: The Cultural Life of Everyday Conversation , Routledge, page 142:
    • One prophecied a change of fortunes for the club:
  • * 2013 , Theodor Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity , Routledge, page 135:
    • The Heideggerian tone of voice is indeed prophecied in Schiller’s discussion of dignity.
  • * 2014 , Emran El-Badawi, The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions , Routledge, page 85:
    • the parable in Mark 12:1—5 where some of Jesus’s followers who prophecied and were martyred in Antioch (Q 36;13—25; cf. 11:91);