Foreshadow vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
foreshadow | foreboding |
To presage, or suggest something in advance.
* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 84:
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
As verbs the difference between foreshadow and foreboding
is that foreshadow is to presage, or suggest something in advance while foreboding is .As a noun 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.foreshadow
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Verb
(en verb)- It all sounds to us remarkably nineteenth-century; Petrarch's romantic sentiments foreshadow with uncanny precision those of Dante Gabriel Rossetti or Alfred de Musset.
foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.