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Demonstration vs Foreboding - What's the difference?

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Demonstration is a related term of foreboding.


As nouns the difference between demonstration and foreboding

is that demonstration is demonstration (act of showing and explaining) while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.

As an adjective foreboding is

of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

As a verb foreboding is

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demonstration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
  • An event at which something will be demonstrated.
  • I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
  • A public display of group opinion.
  • A show of military force.
  • A mathematical proof.
  • * , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
  • He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.

    foreboding

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forboding (much less commonly used)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sense of evil to come.
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
  • A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
  • An evil omen.
  • Synonyms

    * augury

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
  • Verb

    (head)