premonition

English

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Alternative forms

• præmonition (obsolete)

Etymology

Mid 15th century, from Anglo-Norman premunition, from Late Latin praemonitionem (“a forewarning”), form of praemonitio, from Latin praemonitius, form of praemoneō, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + monere (“to warn”) (from which English monitor).

Compare Germanic foretelling, forewarning.

Pronunciation

• enPR: prĕm'ə-, prē'mə-nĭshʹən

Noun

premonition (plural premonitions)

1. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
2. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

Synonyms

• bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

Translations

clairvoyant or clairaudient experience

• Arabic: رؤية (ar) (ru'ya) f
• Finnish: enneuni, enne
• Icelandic: fyrirboði (is) m, (warning) viðvörun (is)

• Russian: предчувствие (ru) (predčústvije) n (the first в is silent)
• Serbo-Croatian: predosećanje
• Slovene: slutnja (sl) f

strong intuition

• Arabic: نبوءة (ar) (nubuu'a) f, حدس (ar) (Hads) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預感 (cmn), 预感 (cmn) (yùgǎn)

• Czech: předtucha (cs) f
• Dutch: voorgevoel (nl)

• Finnish: ennakkoaavistus (fi), etiäinen (fi)
• German: Vorahnung (de) f
• Japanese: 予感 (ja) (よかん, yokan)
• Korean: 예감 (ko) (yegam) (豫感 (ko))
• Portuguese: pressentimento (pt)
• Russian: предчувствие (ru) (predčústvije) n (the first в is silent)
• Serbo-Croatian: predosećaj, slutnja (sh) f
• Spanish: presentimiento (es) m, premonición (es) f