Prognostic vs Forewarning - What's the difference?
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(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
Prognostic is a related term of forewarning.
As nouns the difference between prognostic and forewarning
is that prognostic is (rare|medicine) prognosis while forewarning is an advance warning; an omen.As an adjective prognostic
is of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.As a verb forewarning is
.prognostic
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Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
- While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
- Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.