premonition
English
Alternative forms
- præmonition (obsolete)
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) Mid 15th century, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "xno" is not valid. See WT:LOL. premunition, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 239: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "LL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. praemonitionem (“a forewarning”), form of praemonitio, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praemonitius, form of praemoneō, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + monere (“to warn”) (from which English monitor).[1]
Compare Germanic forewarning.
Pronunciation
Noun
premonition (plural premonitions)
- A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Synonyms
- (clairvoyant experience): vision
- (intution that something will happen): bad feeling, gut feeling, foreboding, hunch, second sight (informal)
Derived terms
Translations
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References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “premonition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.