What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Forecast vs Presentiment - What's the difference?

forecast | presentiment | Synonyms |

Forecast is a synonym of presentiment.


As nouns the difference between forecast and presentiment

is that forecast is an estimation of a future condition while presentiment is a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

As a verb forecast

is to estimate how something will be in the future.

forecast

English

(wikipedia forecast)

Verb

  • To estimate how something will be in the future.
    • to forecast the weather
    to forecast a storm
  • (obsolete) To contrive or plan beforehand.
  • * Milton
    • If it happen as I did forecast .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An estimation of a future condition.
  • A prediction of the weather.
  • :* What's the forecast for tomorrow?

    • External links

    * *

    presentiment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
  • *
  • * 1973 , Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight :
    • Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l)