prognostication

[ prog-nos-ti-key-shuhn ]

noun

1. the act of prognosticating.
2. a forecast or prediction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of prognostication¹

1350–1400; Middle English pronosticacion < Medieval Latin prognōsticātiōn- (stem of prognōsticātiō ). See prognosticate, -ion

Example Sentences

It’s almost as if the entire Groundhog Day industrial complex was designed to be just vague enough to make any quantitative analysis impossible, thereby preserving the rodent prognostication supremacy indefinitely.

From FiveThirtyEight

Days after the news broke, we remain in an information vacuum, and in a prognostication whirlwind with even vaccine makers contradicting each other.

From Science News

When we first published an interactive checking the accuracy of our various prognostications, back in April 2019, the sports world was relatively normal.

From FiveThirtyEight

In the decades since, literary fiction has scaled back on such audacious maximalism, narrowing its breadth to fit the contours of individual lives rather than sweeping prognostications of collective life.

From Washington Post

There are prognostications that cities are dead, and that places like San Francisco and New York are oversaturated.

From Fortune

What comes next is a bit mind bending—a glimmer of autobiography disguised as fictional prognostication.

From The Daily Beast

But beyond press chatter, price swings, and political prognostication, the European reaction to the storm has been limited.

From The Daily Beast

This is crunch time for folks in the prognostication business.

From The Daily Beast

“This is the problem with so much media prognostication,” Kurtz argues, before quoting none other than Jeff Toobin.

From The Daily Beast

The size of the crowds took everyone—at least in the professional prognostication class—by surprise.

From The Daily Beast

However, Philopoemen was not deceived in his prognostication of what would happen; for the Lacedaemonians were thoroughly routed.

From Project Gutenberg

When a single crow flies over you it is the sign of a funeral; two are a certain prognostication of a wedding.

From Project Gutenberg

It ran sometimes straight ahead, but usually in circles, and to see it was a prognostication of death.

From Project Gutenberg

This is the infallible prognostication where you may foresee your endless state.

From Project Gutenberg

Numerous swims in that lake have weakened this prognostication.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• forecasting
• prognosis
• prophecy