Augury vs Premonition - What's the difference?
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A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=2 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).
As nouns the difference between augury and premonition
is that augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals while premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.augury
English
Noun
(auguries)- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
citation, passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}