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Evidence vs Foreboding - What's the difference?

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Evidence is a related term of foreboding.


As nouns the difference between evidence and foreboding

is that evidence is obviousness, clearness 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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evidence

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=
  • , volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman
  • , title= Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
  • One who bears witness.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
  • infamous and perjured evidences

    Derived terms

    * anecdotal evidence * circumstantial evidence * evidence-based medicine * hearsay evidence

    Derived terms

    * after-discovered evidence * clear and convincing evidence * demurrer to evidence * preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence * self-evidence

    Verb

    (evidenc)
  • To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
  • She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.

    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)