Prediction vs Omen - What's the difference?
prediction | omen |
A statement of what will happen in the future.
Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
prophetic significance
To be an omen of.
To divine or predict from omens.
Omen is a synonym of prediction.
As nouns the difference between prediction and omen
is that prediction is a statement of what will happen in the future while omen is something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.As a verb omen is
to be an omen of.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, prognosticationomen
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia omen)- the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
- a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
- the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- a sign of ill omen