Forecasting

Common synonyms include: prediction, prognostication, actuarial prediction, aerography, aerology, anemology.

noun, verb

noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1
A forecast or prediction.
"There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…]"
2
a statement made about the future wordnet

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of forecast form-of, gerund, participle, present

"Prophets have been forecasting the end of the world for centuries."

Etymology 1

From forecast + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.