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Prediction vs Presentiment - What's the difference?

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Prediction is a related term of presentiment.


As nouns the difference between prediction and presentiment

is that prediction is prediction (act of predicting) while presentiment is a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

prediction

English

(wikipedia prediction)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A statement of what will happen in the future.
    • "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." (in translation from Danish)

    Synonyms

    * (statement about the future) forecast, halseny, prognosis, prognostication

    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)