Prediction vs Future - What's the difference?
prediction | future |
A statement of what will happen in the future.
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
(finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
As nouns the difference between prediction and future
is that prediction is prediction (act of predicting) while future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.As an adjective future is
having to do with or occurring in the future.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, prognosticationfuture
English
(wikipedia future)Noun
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}