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Foretelling vs Forecasting - What's the difference?

foretelling | forecasting |

As verbs the difference between foretelling and forecasting

is that foretelling is while forecasting is .

As nouns the difference between foretelling and forecasting

is that foretelling is prediction while forecasting is a forecast or prediction.

foretelling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • prediction

    • 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