Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: fortunetelling  'for-chun,te-ling or 'for,tyoon,te-ling
  1. The practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment)
    "She visited the carnival fortunetelling booth out of curiosity"
Noun: fortune telling
  1. The art or gift of prophecy (or the pretence of prophecy) by supernatural means
    "The carnival fortune teller practised fortune telling in her colourful tent";
    - divination, foretelling, soothsaying

Derived forms: fortune tellings

Type of: forecasting, foretelling, prediction, prognostication, prophecy, vaticination

Encyclopedia: Fortunetelling

Fortune telling