Successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck.

Roget 514: supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum [Lat.], theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition, position; proposal etc. (plan) 626; presumption etc. (belief) 484; divination.    conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark [Coll.]; conjecturality^†; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness) 197.    inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion.    association of ideas, (analogy) 514.1; metonym [Gramm.], metonymy [Gramm.], simile (metaphor) 521.    conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination) 515.    ... show more

Roget 992: sorcery; occult art, occult sciences; magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy^†; demonology, demonomy^†, demonship^†; diablerie [Fr.], bedevilment; witchcraft, witchery; glamor; fetishism, fetichism, feticism^†; ghost dance, hoodoo; obi, obiism^†; voodoo, voodooism; Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism; conjuration; bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism; od force, odylic force^†; electrobiology^†, clairvoyance; spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning.    divination etc. (prediction) 511; sortilege^†, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae^†; hocus-pocus etc. (deception) 545.    ... show more

A prediction uttered under divine inspiration.

synonym: prophecy.

Dutch: voorspelling
Polish: proroctwo, wyrocznia

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

synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying.

Roget 511: prediction, announcement; program, programme [Brit.] etc. (plan) 626; premonition etc. (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology^†, prognostication, premonstration^†; augury, auguration^†; ariolation^†, hariolation^†; foreboding, aboding^†; bodement^†, abodement^†; omniation^†, omniousness^†; auspices, forecast; omen etc. 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth^†, soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy etc. 992.    [Divination by the stars] astrology^†, horoscopy^†, judicial astrology^†.    [Place of Prediction]. adytum prefiguration^†, prefigurement; prototype, type.    [person who predicts] oracle etc. 513.    ... show more

Polish: wróżbiarstwo, mantyka, dywinacja, wieszczbiarstwo