English
Etymology
From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
divination (countable and uncountable, plural divinations)
- (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
- The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
- (countable) An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
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), 預言 / 预言 (zh) (yùyán)
- 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 Greek: 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)
- Latin: dīvīnātiō f
- Māori: niu
- Polish: wróżba (pl) f, wróżenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: adivinhação (pt) f, divinação f
- Romanian: divinație (ro) f
- Russian: предсказа́ние (ru) n (predskazánije), прорица́ние (ru) n (proricánije), предви́дение (ru) n (predvídenije)
- Spanish: adivinación (es) f, divinación (es) f (disused), videncia f
- Swahili: ramli (sw)
- Turkish: kehanet (tr), önbili
- Ottoman Turkish: فال (fal), كبزه (kebze)
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art of discovering secrets or seeing the future by supernatural means
- Bulgarian: гадаене (bg) n (gadaene), врачуване n (vračuvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 占卜術, 預知術 / 预知术
- Finnish: selvännäkeminen, kaivonkatsominen
- Greek: μαντεία (el) f (manteía), μαντική (el) f (mantikí)
- Ancient Greek: μαντεία f (manteía), μαντική f (mantikḗ)
- Hungarian: jövendölés (hu)
- Irish: fáistine f
- Italian: oracolo (it) m, divinazione (it) f
- Latin: dīvīnātiō f
- Māori: niu, rata (mi)
- Russian: гада́ние (ru) n (gadánije), ворожба́ (ru) f (vorožbá)
- Spanish: divinidad (es) f, divinación (es) f (disused), videncia f
- Swahili: ramli (sw)
- Turkish:
- Ottoman Turkish: كبزه (kebze)
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indication of future, prediction
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See also
French
Etymology
From Latin dīvīnātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vi.na.sjɔ̃/
Noun
divination f (plural divinations)
- divination
Further reading
Middle French
Noun
divination f (plural divinations)
- divination (act of divining)