Saying what you think will happen in the future based on information or patterns.
From Latin 'praedicere,' combining 'prae' (before) and 'dicere' (to say). The word literally means 'to say beforehand' and has been used this way since the 14th century.
The word 'predicting' reveals our human obsession with the future—we're constantly trying to see what's coming, even though prediction fails more often than it succeeds, and yet we keep trying.
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