divination
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:divination
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Translations[edit]
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[edit]
- Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin dīvīnātiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
divination f (plural divinations)
Further reading[edit]
- “divination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
divination f (plural divinations)
- divination (act of divining)
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