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See also: prémonition
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- præmonition (archaic)
Etymology[edit]
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).[1]
Compare Germanic forewarning.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
premonition (plural premonitions)
- A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- Synonym: vision
- A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- Synonyms: bad feeling, foreboding, gut feeling, hunch, second sight (informal)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
clairvoyant or clairaudient experience
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strong intuition
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References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper, “premonition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.