divination
English
Etymology
From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)
- (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
- The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
- (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:divination
Derived terms
- dice divination
- star divination
Related terms
- divine
- divinatory
- predivination
Translations
act of divining
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art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means
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indication of future, prediction
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See also
Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Latin dīvīnātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vi.na.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “divination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
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