premonition

See also: prémonition

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
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

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).

Derived terms

• premonitory

Synonyms

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

Translations

clairvoyant or clairaudient experience

• Arabic: رُؤْيَة‏‎ f (ruʾya)
• Finnish: enneuni, enne (fi)
• Greek: προαίσθημα (el) (proaísthima)
• Icelandic: fyrirboði (is) m, (warning) viðvörun (is)
• Italian: premonizione (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: syn (no) n, varsel (no) n

• Portuguese: premonição (pt) f
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije) (the first в is silent)
• Serbo-Croatian: predosećanje
• Slovene: slutnja f
• Swedish: varsel (sv) n, förebud (sv) n

strong intuition

• Arabic: نُبُوءَة‏‎ f (nubūʾa), حَدْس‏‎ (ar) m (ḥads)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 預感 (zh), 预感 (zh) (yùgǎn)

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

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

  Bokmål: forutanelse m

• Polish: przeczucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: pressentimento (pt)
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije) (the first в is silent)
• Serbo-Croatian: predosećaj (sh), slutnja (sh) f
• Spanish: presentimiento (es) m, premonición f
• Swedish: föraning (sv) c
• Tagalog: salagimsim