Divination
[,dɪvɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɪvɪ'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.
(noun.) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck.
Edited by Lester--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
(n.) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
Checker: Nathan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Divining, foretelling.[2]. Presage, prediction, prophecy.
Checker: Myrna
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prediction, sorcery, magic, witchcraft, augury, omens
ANT:Instruction, information, investigation, study, learning
Checker: Sondra
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
Typist: Tyler
Examples
- Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It was finished, her spell of divination in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her dark, dilated eyes rested on Birkin, as if she could conjure the truth of the future out of him, as out of some instrument of divination. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet he never saw her, or exchanged a word with her, without feeling that, after all, May's ingenuousness almost amounted to a gift of divination. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Editor: Trudy