premonition

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English

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 (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) Serbian: predosećanje Slovene: slutnja (sl) f.

strong intuition

Arabic: نبوءة (ar) (nubuu'a) f., حدس (ar) (Hads) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 預感 (zh), 预感 (zh) (yùgǎn) Croatian: slutnja (hr) f. 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)) Russian: предчувствие (ru) (predčústvije) n. (the first в is silent) Serbian: predosećaj Spanish: presentimiento (es) m., premonición (es) f.