prediction
/prɪˈdɪkʃ(ə)n
/noun
1A thing predicted; a forecast: a prediction that economic growth would resume...
- Severe frost is likely over the next month or so according to weather predictions.
- So I think all the predictions and projections everybody is making are on target.
- Londonist scoured some of the weather sites and found the following predictions.
Synonyms
forecast, prophecy, divination, prognosis, prognostication, augury;
bet, projection, conjecture, guess
rare vaticination, prognostic, auspication
1.1 [mass noun] The action of predicting something: the prediction of future behaviour...
- My guess is that any such precision of prediction or of control lies decades into the future.
- Although yesterday's election defied all attempts at prediction, that tradition remained.
- This approach to reading stresses the importance of prediction in the reading process.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin praedictio(n-), from praedicere 'make known beforehand' (see predict).
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