Boding vs Foreboding - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between boding and foreboding

is that boding is an omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.

is that boding is portending, ominous while foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

is that boding is while foreboding is .

(en noun)

An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.

* Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The boding of the tree toad.

(en adjective)

portending, ominous

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* forboding (much less commonly used)

(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.

* augury

(en adjective)

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

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