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Divination vs Onychomancy - What's the difference?

divination | onychomancy |

As nouns the difference between divination and onychomancy

is that divination is the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while onychomancy is an ancient form of divination based on the reflections of sunlight on a boy's fingernails.

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) ----

    onychomancy

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia onychomancy)
  • An ancient form of divination based on the reflections of sunlight on a boy's fingernails.
    • (Webster 1913)