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Divination vs Forecasting - What's the difference?

divination | forecasting |

As nouns the difference between divination and forecasting

is that divination is (uncountable) the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while forecasting is a forecast or prediction.

As a verb forecasting is

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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) ----

    forecasting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forecast or prediction.
  • * 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
    • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin