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Divination vs Aeroscopy - What's the difference?

divination | aeroscopy |

As nouns the difference between divination and aeroscopy

is that divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while aeroscopy is (obsolete|meteorology) the branch of meteorology that involves the scientific examination of the various properties and composition of the atmosphere, and their variation.

divination

English

(wikipedia divination)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
  • The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
  • (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * star divination

    Related terms

    * divine * predivination

    See also

    * (Methods of divination) ----

    aeroscopy

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, meteorology) The branch of meteorology that involves the scientific examination of the various properties and composition of the atmosphere, and their variation
  • (rare) divination by observation of the sky
  • (zoology) aeroscepsy

    • Related terms

    * aeroscopic * aeroscope

    References

    * * * * The Imperial dictionary, English, technological and scientific.. , by John Ogilvie, 1850 * Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas , by Peter Mark Roget, 1853 * Dictionary of geology and mineralogy , by William Humble, 1843 * Dictionary of aviation , by Robert Morris Pierce, 1911