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ˈsuθˌseɪ ɪŋsooth·say·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune tellingnoun

    the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

Wiktionary

  1. soothsayingnoun

    A method of foretelling the future.

  2. Etymology: sooth + saying : truth telling.

Wikipedia

  1. soothsaying

    Divination (from Latin divinare, 'to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to prophesy') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Used in various forms throughout history, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact or interaction with a supernatural agency. Divination can be seen as a systematic method with which to organize what appears to be disjointed, random facets of existence such that they provide insight into a problem at hand. If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a more formal or ritualistic element and often contains a more social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine. Fortune-telling, on the other hand, is a more everyday practice for personal purposes. Particular divination methods vary by culture and religion. Divination has long been criticized. In the modern era, it has been dismissed by the scientific community and skeptics as being superstitious; experiments do not support the idea that divination techniques can actually predict the future more reliably or precisely than would be possible without it. In antiquity it was attacked by philosophers such as the Academic skeptic Cicero in De Divinatione and the Pyrrhonist Sextus Empiricus in Against the Astrologers. The satirist Lucian devoted an essay to Alexander the false prophet.

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  1. soothsaying

    Soothsaying is the act or practice of attempting to predict the future, typically through vaguely worded predictions or interpretations of signs, omens, or supernatural insights. It is often associated with supernatural or occult practices, such as divination, fortune-telling, prophecy, and astrology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Soothsayingnoun

    a true saying; truth

  2. Soothsayingnoun

    the act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions

  3. Soothsayingnoun

    a prediction; a prophecy; a prognostication

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of soothsaying in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of soothsaying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of soothsaying in a Sentence

  1. Francis Bacon:

    For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it -- for them everything must be sought in things themselves.

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