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Foreboding vs Forecasting - What's the difference?

foreboding | forecasting |

As nouns the difference between foreboding and forecasting

is that foreboding is a sense of evil to come while forecasting is a forecast or prediction.

As verbs the difference between foreboding and forecasting

is that foreboding is present participle of lang=en while forecasting is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective foreboding

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

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)

    • forecasting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A forecast or prediction.
  • * 1852 , The Dublin University Magazine (page 66)
    • There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin