Synonyms for prophecy
ˈprɒf ə siprophe·cy

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1. prophecy, prognostication, vaticinationnoun

   knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

   Synonyms:
   foretelling, presage, forecasting, portent, prodigy, prediction, omen, divination, prognostication, prognostic, vaticination

2. prophecy, divinationnoun

   a prediction uttered under divine inspiration

   Synonyms:
   prognostication, divination, foretelling, vaticination, soothsaying, fortune telling

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1. • Prediction

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1. anouncment

   when you tell the audience what is going to happen next

   there was a prophecy in school.

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. prophecynoun

   Synonyms:
   prediction, prognostication, vaticination, foretelling, divination

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1. prophecynoun

   Synonyms:
   prediction, foretelling, divination, soothsaying, prognostication, augury, vaticination

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1. List of paraphrases for "prophecy":

   prophesy, prediction

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1. List of known nicknames for "Prophecy":

   Jason Miller, Jason Covenant

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1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

   Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

2. Stephen Massocca:

   It is amazing how correlated everything is to oil. That sort of becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, that oil is going down so people sell stocks.

3. John Ruskin:

   The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

4. Carl Sagan:

   Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

5. Michel Rauchs:

   The recent rally has been driven by the usual hype cycle that we have very reliably seen every two to three years, we have these mini-bubbles, and the momentum that it creates - bitcoin first, then these other coins. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.