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Fortune telling   /fˈɔrtʃən tˈɛlɪŋ/   Listen
Fortune telling

noun
1.
The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.  Synonyms: divination, foretelling, soothsaying.





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"Fortune telling" Quotes from Famous Books



... premonstration|; augury, auguration|; ariolation|, hariolation|; foreboding, aboding[obs3]; bodement[obs3], abodement[obs3]; omniation|, omniousness[obs3]; auspices, forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth[obs3], soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c. 992. [Divination by the stars] astrology[obs3], horoscopy[obs3], judicial astrology1[obs3]. [obs3] adytum[Place of prediction]. prefiguration[obs3], prefigurement; prototype, type. [person who predicts] oracle &c. 513. V. predict, prognosticate, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Fortune telling" :   onomancy, chirology, lithomancy, hydromancy, arithmancy, soothsaying, dowse, dowsing, necromancy, rhabdomancy, vaticination, divination, prophecy, pyromancy, palmistry, chiromancy, oneiromancy, geomancy, prognostication, palm reading


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