premonition

See also: prémonition

English

Alternative forms

• præmonition (archaic)

Etymology

Mid 15th century, from Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemonitiōnem (“a forewarning”), form of praemonitiō, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemoneō, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + moneō (“to warn”) (from which English monitor).

Compare Germanic forewarning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/, /ˌprɛ-/
• enPR: prĕm'ə-, prē'mə-nĭshʹən
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

Noun

premonition (plural premonitions)

1. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

   Synonym: vision

2. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

   Synonyms: bad feeling, foreboding, gut feeling, hunch, (informal) second sight

Derived terms

• premonitory

Translations

clairvoyant or clairaudient experience

• Arabic: رُؤْيَة‎ f (ruʾya)
• Bulgarian: предчувствие (bg) f (predčuvstvie)
• Catalan: premonició (ca) f
• Finnish: enneuni (fi), enne (fi)
• Greek: προαίσθημα (el) n (proaísthima)
• Icelandic: fyrirboði (is) m, (warning) viðvörun (is) f
• Indonesian: pertanda (id)
• Italian: premonizione (it) f
• Latin: praemonitus m, praesāgium n

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syn (no) n, varsel (no) n

• Portuguese: premonição (pt) f
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije) (the first в is silent)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: предосећање ?

  Roman: predosećanje ?

• Slovene: slutnja f
• Swedish: varsel (sv) n, förebud (sv) n

strong intuition

• Arabic: نُبُوءَة‎ f (nubūʾa), حَدْس‎ (ar) m (ḥads)
• Bulgarian: интуиция (bg) f (intuicija)
• Catalan: pressentiment (ca) m, presagi (ca) m, premonició (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預感 (zh), 预感 (zh) (yùgǎn)

• Czech: předtucha f
• Dutch: voorgevoel (nl) n
• Finnish: ennakkoaavistus, etiäinen (fi)
• French: prémonition (fr) f
• German: Vorahnung (de) f
• Hungarian: előérzet (hu)
• Indonesian: firasat (id)
• Italian: premonizione (it) f, presentimento (it) m, presagio (it) m, predizione (it) f
• Japanese: 予感 (ja) (よかん, yokan)

• Korean: 예감(豫感) (ko) (yegam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forutanelse (no) m

• Polish: przeczucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: pressentimento (pt) m
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije) (the first в is silent)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏досјећа̄ј m, предосећај m, слу́тња f

  Roman: prȅdosjećāj (sh) m, predosećaj (sh) m, slútnja (sh) f

• Spanish: presentimiento (es) m, premonición f
• Swedish: föraning (sv) c
• Tagalog: salagimsim
• Thai: ลางสังหรณ์ (th)