A person who practices fortuning or claims to have the ability to tell fortunes; a fortune-teller.
Derived from 'fortune' with the suffix '-ite', meaning 'one who practices or believes in.' This construction follows the pattern of words like 'dynamite' (though with different etymology) and reflects 19th-century coinage of specialist professions.
The '-ite' suffix usually refers to minerals or rock types (like granite or meteorite), so calling a fortune-teller a 'fortunite' cleverly plays with language as if they're a solid, unchanging thing—which is funny since they claim to predict change!
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