Synonyms:
prediction, anticipation, prevision
Meaning: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
Usage examples
PREDICTION.
Wet year!" rolled the Cardinal's prediction.
And many other phenomena were capable of prediction by accumulated experience.
Prediction is no novelty in science; and in astronomy least of all is it a novelty.
I do not suppose that Mr. Adams himself could feel all that confidence in his attempted prediction.
He perched on a limb, and between dressing his plumage and pecking at last year's sour dried berries, he sent abroad his prediction.
He could predict the death of a child, almost to the minute, without a change in his mask-like expression, and feel a faint throb of professional pride when his prediction was precisely fulfilled.
Mainly, the difference lies, first, in the grounds on which the prediction is based; second, on the difficulty of the investigation whereby it is accomplished; third, in the completeness and the accuracy with which it can be verified.
When he reflected on this prediction and on the series of events, he began thinking of the remarkable coincidences they betrayed; and as he thought of sending for her, as soon as the condition of the young mother's health would admit, he hurried forward the repairs of the eastern mansion.