PROGNOSTICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prognostication mean? 

• PROGNOSTICATION (noun)
  The noun PROGNOSTICATION has 3 senses:

1. a sign of something about to happen

2. a statement made about the future

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

  Familiarity information: PROGNOSTICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROGNOSTICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sign of something about to happen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

omen; portent; presage; prodigy; prognostic; prognostication

Context example:

he looked for an omen before going into battle

Hypernyms ("prognostication" is a kind of...):

augury; foretoken; preindication; sign (an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prognostication"):

auspice (a favorable omen)

foreboding (an unfavorable omen)

death knell (an omen of death or destruction)

Derivation:

prognosticate (indicate, as with a sign or an omen)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A statement made about the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

forecasting; foretelling; prediction; prognostication

Hypernyms ("prognostication" is a kind of...):

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prognostication"):

extropy (the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe)

fortunetelling (the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment))

horoscope (a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets)

meteorology; weather forecasting (predicting what the weather will be)

forecast; prognosis (a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop)

divination; prophecy (a prediction uttered under divine inspiration)

Derivation:

prognosticate (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

prognostication; prophecy; vaticination

Hypernyms ("prognostication" is a kind of...):

anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "prognostication"):

crystal gazing (staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events)

divination; foretelling; fortune telling; soothsaying (the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means)

Derivation:

prognosticate (make a prediction about; tell in advance)

 Context examples 

The technology is based on microarray analysis and allows for accurate prognostication based upon these criteria.

(Gene Signature, NCI Thesaurus)

In vain were the well-meant condescensions of Sir Thomas, and all the officious prognostications of Mrs. Norris that she would be a good girl; in vain did Lady Bertram smile and make her sit on the sofa with herself and pug, and vain was even the sight of a gooseberry tart towards giving her comfort; she could scarcely swallow two mouthfuls before tears interrupted her, and sleep seeming to be her likeliest friend, she was taken to finish her sorrows in bed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)