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Prediction vs Foreshadow - What's the difference?

prediction | foreshadow |

As a noun prediction

is prediction (act of predicting).

As a verb foreshadow is

to presage, or suggest something in advance.

prediction

English

(wikipedia prediction)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement of what will happen in the future.
    • "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." (in translation from Danish)

    Synonyms

    * (statement about the future) forecast, halseny, prognosis, prognostication

    foreshadow

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To presage, or suggest something in advance.
  • * 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
    • It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.