prognostication means A statement about or prior knowledge of the future. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.
Why “prognostication” is a great word
PROGNOSTICATION — [Noun] A prediction about the future, especially one based on the interpretation of present signs or indications. From Old French pronosticacion, from Medieval Latin prognosticatio, from Latin prognosticare ("to predict"), from Greek prognōstikos ("knowing beforehand"), from pro- ("before") and gnōsis ("knowledge"). First attested in English in the late 14th century. Unlike "prophecy," which implies divine revelation, or "forecast," a neutral statistical estimate, prognostication is the rational yet portentous art of reading the tea leaves of evidence. It is the farmer interpreting the ache in his bones as a coming storm, the political analyst plotting the trajectory of a rising faction, or the physician noting a fatal pattern in a patient's pallor—a deeply human compulsion to find narrative in the gathering dark.
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- A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.“She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.”