| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supernatural power; appearance |
Synonyms: |
alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | precognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clairvoyance |
Synonyms: |
ESP, acumen, discernment, extra sensory perception, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, fortune-telling, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense, telepathy |
| Notes: | clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference |
| Main Entry: | prediction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration made in advance |
Synonyms: |
augury, cast, conjecture, crystal gazing, divination, dope, forecast, forecasting, foresight, foretelling, fortune-telling, guess, horoscope, hunch, indicator, of event anticipation, omen, palmistry, presage, prevision, prognosis, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying, surmising, tip, vaticination, zodiac |
| Main Entry: | prestidigitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell, superstition, taboo*, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | prognostication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction |
Synonyms: |
augury, cast, conjecture, crystal gazing, divination, dope*, forecast, forecasting, foresight, foretelling, fortune-telling, guess, horoscope, hunch, indicator, of event anticipation, omen, outlook, palmistry, presage, prevision, prognosis, projection, prophecy, soothsaying, surmising, tip, vaticination, zodiac |
| Main Entry: | thaumaturgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell*, superstition, taboo*, theurgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | theurgy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | magic |
Synonyms: |
abracadabra, alchemy, allurement, astrology, augury, bewitchment, black art, conjuration, conjuring, conjury, devilry, diabolism, divination, enchantment, exorcism, fascination, foreboding, fortune-telling, hocuspocus, horoscopy, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, magnetism, necromancy, occultism, power, prediction, presage, prestidigitation, prophecy, rune, sleight of hand, soothsaying, sorcery, sortilege, spell*, superstition, taboo*, thaumaturgy, trickery, voodoo, voodooism, witchcraft, witchery, witching, wizardry |
| Main Entry: | magic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
magic, Pythian, adumbrative, aeaeae, apocalyptic, apotropaic, attuned, beatific, blessed, blissed, celestial, chaldean, charmed, chimerical, deep, devoid, disembodied, divine, eerie, elevated, ethereal, evanescent, exalted, existential, extrasensory, fatidic, hagborn, hermetic, holy, hypnotic, imaginary, incantatory, integrated, magical, mantic, mystic, mystical, numinous, occult, oneiric, orphic, pacific, paranormal, phylacteric, positive, preternatural, psychedelic, psychic, realized, sacred, sensitive, sibylline, spellbound, stoicheiotical, sublime, supernal, supernatural, supersensible, supreme, surrealistic, talismanic, telestically, thaumaturgical, touched, transcendental, tuned, uncanny, unfamiliar, unimaginable, unreal, vatic, weird
|
| Concept: | Prediction. |
| Category: | 2. To the Future |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
prediction, announcement; program, programme (plan); premonition (warning); prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration; augury, auguration; ahariolation, hariolation; foreboding, aboding; bodement, abodement; omniation, omniousness; auspices, forecast; omen; horoscope, nativity; sooth, soothsaying; fortunetelling; divination; necromancy., [Divination by the stars] astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology., [Place of prediction] adytum., prefiguration, prefigurement; prototype, type.
-verbs
predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscoppe, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn., presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure, preshow; portend; foreshow, foreshadow; shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to., usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower., hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor.
-adjectives
predicting; predictive, prophetic; fatidic, fatidical; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, harupsical, Sibylline; weatherwise., ominous, portentous, augurous, agurial, agural; auspicial, auspicious; prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
-phrases
"coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus bona verba; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young].
|
| Browse Concept Index » | |