vaticination

Questions about vaticination

What does vaticination mean?

vaticination means "knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)".

How many syllables are in vaticination?

vaticination has 6 syllables and divides as va-ti-ci-na-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for vaticination?

Close synonyms include prophecy, prognostication. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vaticination a common word?

vaticination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.