Prediction vs Existence - What's the difference?
prediction | existence |
A statement of what will happen in the future.
The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
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As nouns the difference between prediction and existence
is that prediction is prediction (act of predicting) while existence is the state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.prediction
English
(wikipedia prediction)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." (in translation from Danish)
Synonyms
* (statement about the future) forecast, halseny, prognosis, prognosticationexistence
English
(wikipedia existence)Noun
A Palette of Particles, passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}