Noun divination has 3 senses
  1. divination - successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
    --1 is a kind of
    guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis
  2. prophecy, divination - a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
    --2 is a kind of prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication
    --2 has particulars: oracle
    Derived form: verb divine1
  3. divination, foretelling, soothsaying, fortune telling - the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
    --3 is a kind of prophecy, prognostication, vaticination
    --3 has particulars:
     dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy; geomancy; hydromancy; lithomancy; necromancy; oneiromancy; onomancy; palmistry, palm reading, chiromancy, chirology; pyromancy
    Derived form: verb divine1
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