premonition
See also: prémonition
English edit
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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
- IPA(key): /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/, /ˌprɛ-/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - enPR: prĕm'ə-, prē'mə-nĭshʹən
- Rhymes: -ɪʃən
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, (informal) second sight
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Translations edit
clairvoyant or clairaudient experience
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strong intuition
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References edit
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “premonition”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.