Indication vs Intimation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between indication and intimation

is that indication is act of pointing out or indicating while intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

(en noun)

Act of pointing out or indicating.

That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.

The frequent stops they make in the most convenient places are plain indications of their weariness. .

Discovery made; information.

(obsolete) Explanation]]; display. [[w:Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon .

(medicine) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.

(finance) An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.

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(en noun)

The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

Announcement; declaration.

* (Holland)

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.

Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.

* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :

At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.