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Precursor vs Premonition - What's the difference?

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Precursor is a related term of premonition.


As nouns the difference between precursor and premonition

is that precursor is that which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events while premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

precursor

English

Alternative forms

* (chiefly obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which precurses, a forerunner, a predecessor, an indicator of approaching events.
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    • Anagrams

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    premonition

    English

    (wikipedia premonition)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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).

    • Synonyms

    * bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

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