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Forecasting vs Guessing - What's the difference?

forecasting | guessing |

As verbs the difference between forecasting and guessing

is that forecasting is present participle of lang=en while guessing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between forecasting and guessing

is that forecasting is a forecast or prediction while guessing is the act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.

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

    guessing

    English

    Noun

    (guessings)
  • The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * guessing game