predicting

a declaration that something will happen in the future <those annual predictings by self-styled psychics that grace the front pages of the tabloids> Synonyms auguring, augury, bodement, cast, forecast, forecasting, foretelling, prediction, presaging, prognosis, prognostic, prognosticating, prognostication, prophecy (also prophesy), soothsaying, vaticinationRelated Words foreboding, harbinger, omen, portent, prevision, prospectus, sign; anticipation, foreknowledge; foresight; conjecture, guess, surmise