Premonition vs Notion - What's the difference?
premonition | notion |
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Mental]] apprehension of whatever may be known, [[think, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.
* (Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
* (George Cheyne) (1671-1743)
* (Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
* (Alexander Hamilton) (ca.1756-1804)
A sentiment; an opinion.
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* (John Henry Newman) (1801-1890)
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(label) Sense; mind. Shakespeare.
(label) An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack.
Any small article used in sewing and haberdashery, such as a button or zipper.
(label) Inclination; intention; disposition.
As nouns the difference between premonition and notion
is that premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future while notion is mental apprehension of whatever may be known, thought, or imagined; idea, concept.premonition
English
(wikipedia premonition)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)References
notion
Noun
(en noun)- What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles.
- Few agree in their notions about these words.
- That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.
- Notion , again, signifies either the act of apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result of that act.
- The extravagant notion they entertain of themselves.
- A perverse will easily collects together a system of notions to justify itself in its obliquity.
George Goodchild