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Indication vs Prognostication - What's the difference?

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Indication is a related term of prognostication.


As nouns the difference between indication and prognostication

is that indication is act of pointing out or indicating while prognostication is a statement about or prior knowledge of the future.

indication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Act of pointing out or indicating.
  • That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
    • The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. .
  • Discovery made; information.
  • (obsolete) Explanation]]; display. [[w:Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon .
  • (medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
  • (finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

    • Related terms

    * index * indicate * indicator * indicative

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    prognostication

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
  • * 1837 , The Dublin University Magazine
    • She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications , but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.