chresmology means the study of prophecy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
CHRESMOLOGY — [Noun] The systematic study and formal collection of prophecies and oracular pronouncements. From Ancient Greek χρησμός (khrēsmós, "oracle, prophecy") and -λογία (-logía, "study of"). Unlike "divination" (the active, ritualistic practice of seeking hidden knowledge) or "Christology" (a precise doctrinal inquiry within a single faith), chresmology is the secular autopsy of foresight, the archival science of pronouncements already cast. It is the scholar's finger tracing the cracked lines of a Delphic parchment; the dry, taxonomic sorting of Sibylline leaves by purported century; the careful cross-referencing of a fulfilled doom with the dubious event that answered it. It is the melancholy science of listening for echoes in a well that has long since run dry.
noun
- the study of prophecy
- a collection of prophecies