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Divination vs Premonition - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between divination and premonition

is that divination is the act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events while premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

divination

English

(wikipedia divination)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
  • The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
  • (countable) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * star divination

    Related terms

    * divine * predivination

    See also

    * (Methods of divination) ----

    premonition

    English

    (wikipedia premonition)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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

    * bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

    References