divination

divination

English

Etymology

From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdɪvɨˈneɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)

1. (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
2. The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
3. (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:divination

Derived terms

• dice divination
• star divination

Related terms

• divine
• divinatory
• predivination

Translations

act of divining

Bulgarian: предсказване (bg) n (predskazvane) Catalan: endevinació (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 卜筮 (zh) (bǔshì), 占卜 (zh) (zhānbǔ), (by use of the Eight Trigrams in Taoism) 卜卦 (zh) (bǔguà) Czech: věštba f, věštění (cs) n Ewe: afakaka Finnish: ennustaminen (fi) French: divination (fr) f Galician: adivinación (gl) f German: Wahrsagerei (de) f, Wahrsagen n Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía) Ancient: μαντεία f (manteía) Hungarian: jövendölés (hu) Indonesian: ramal (id), tenung (id) Irish: fáistine f Italian: divinazione (it) f Japanese: 占い (ja) (uranai) Korean: 점(占) (ko) (jeom), 복점(卜占) (ko) (bokjeom) Maori: niu Portuguese: adivinhação (pt) f, divinação f Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прорица́ние (ru) n (proricánije), предви́дение (ru) n (predvídenije) Spanish: adivinación (es) f, divinación (es) f Swahili: ramli (sw) Turkish: kehanet (tr), önbili

art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means

Bulgarian: гадаене (bg) n (gadaene), врачуване n (vračuvane) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: selvännäkeminen, kaivonkatsominen Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía), μαντική (el) f (mantikí) Ancient: μαντεία f (manteía), μαντική f (mantikḗ) Hungarian: jövendölés (hu) Irish: fáistine f Italian: oracolo (it) m, divinazione (it) f Maori: niu, rata (mi) Russian: гада́ние (ru) n (gadánije), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá) Spanish: divinidad (es) f Swahili: ramli (sw)

indication of future, prediction

Bulgarian: прогноза (bg) f (prognoza) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ennustus (fi) Greek: προφητεία (el) f (profiteía) Hungarian: jövendölés (hu) Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прогно́з (ru) m (prognóz) Spanish: divinidad (es) f

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Romanian: (please verify) divinizare (ro) f

See also

• Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

From Latin dīvīnātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.na.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination

Further reading

• “divination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Noun

divination f (plural divinations)

1. divination (act of divining)

Related terms

• diviner