Divination Synonyms

dĭvə-nāshən
Something that is foretold by or as if by supernatural means
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. prophecy
  2. soothsaying
  3. augury
  4. forecast
  5. clairvoyance
  6. foretelling
  7. fortunetelling
  8. prediction
  9. insight
  10. cleromancy
  11. oneiromancy
  12. palmistry
  13. rhabdomancy
  14. fortune-telling
  15. interpretation of omens
  16. sorcery
  17. calculation
  18. foreshadowing
  19. oracle
  20. prognostics
  21. prognostication
  22. extrasensory-perception
  23. esp
  24. spirit-rapping
  25. table-tipping
  26. thaumaturgy
  27. horoscopy
  28. penetration
  29. intimation
  30. portent
  31. warning
  32. astromancy
  33. i-ching
  34. phrenology
  35. astrology
  36. graphology
  37. tea-leaf reading
  38. hieromancy
  39. necromancy
  40. hydromancy
  41. ichthyomancy
  42. pyromancy
  43. crystal gazing
  44. crystallomancy
  45. sciomancy
  46. ornithomancy
  47. ophiomancy
  48. dactyliomancy
  49. bibliomancy
  50. anthropomancy
  51. alectryomancy
  52. catoptromancy
  53. psephomancy
  54. guess
  55. numerology
  56. alphitomancy
  57. lithomancy
  58. haruspication
  59. chiromancy
  60. aeromancy
  61. aleuromancy
  62. axinomancy
  63. vaticination
  64. intuition
  65. belomancy
  66. haruspicy
  67. genethliacs
  68. dowsing
  69. Ouija board (trademark)
  70. casting the planchette
  71. omen
  72. vision
  73. premonition
  74. onomancy
  75. prognosis
  76. scapulimancy
  77. stichomancy
  78. sortilege
  79. sycomancy
  80. theomancy
  81. xylomancy
  82. zoomancy

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Divination Sentence Examples

  • That they were employed in divination is consonant with the facts already noted.

  • We are justified in concluding, therefore, that among the Greeks and Romans likewise the examination of the liver was the basis of divination in the case of the sacrificial animal.

  • As man approached the gods in sacrifice and prayers, so too the gods declared themselves to men by divers signs and tokens, which it was possible to read by the art of Divination (q.v.).

  • Prophetic personality now moved in a larger sphere than that of divination, important though that function be in the social life of the ancient state as instrumental in declaring the will of the deity when any enterprise was on foot.

  • Like Leonardo, but with much less than Leonardo's genius for scientific speculation and divination, Diirer was a confirmed reasoner and theorist on the laws of nature and natural appearances.

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