Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

This HTML version by Andrew Ritz, Langtech.
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z 

CLASS IV DIVISION I SECTION VI EXTENSION OF THOUGHT


505. Memory -- N. memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness; tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae [Lat.] ; tablets of the memory; readiness.

506. Oblivion -- N. oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness &c adj.; amnesia; obliteration of &c 552, insensibility to the past &c 823.

507. Expectation -- N. expectation, expectance, expectancy; anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight &c 510.

508. Inexpectation -- N. inexpectation † , non-expectation; false expectation &c (disappointment) 509; miscalculation &c 481.

509. [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment -- N. disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation &c 481; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.

510. Foresight -- N. foresight, prospicience † , prevision, long-sightedness; anticipation; providence &c (preparation) 673.

511. Prediction -- N. prediction, announcement; program, programme [Brit.] &c (plan) 626; premonition &c (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology † , prognostication, premonstration † ; augury, auguration † ; ariolation † , hariolation † ; foreboding, aboding † ; bodement † , abodement † ; omniation † , omniousness † ; auspices, forecast; omen &c 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth † , soothsaying; fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c 992.

512. Omen -- N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice; sign &c (indication) 550; harbinger &c (precursor) 64; yule candle † .

513. Oracle -- N. oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer † , witch, geomancer † , aruspex † ; aruspice † , haruspice † ; haruspex; astrologer, star gazer † ; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness † ; Pythia; Pythian oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra † , Sibylline leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer &c 994; interpreter, &c 524.