MEANING
The attempt to discover hidden knowledge or future events through supernatural signs or methods.
Use it for
uncertain futures; competing interpretations; hidden informationMake prediction a process that characters can trust or challenge.
Words that belong together
- practice divination
- methods of divination
- divination by lots
On the page
Divination by falling leaves gave the council contradictory answers.
The queen banned divination after the harvest was foretold correctly.
He used divination to seek a missing child, not a distant future.
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Word forms
- Base
- divination
Usage notes
Primary category: fantasy. Names the practice, not guaranteed truth; distinguish a method of interpretation from the prophecy it yields. Mass noun in this sense; no ordinary plural.
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