Premonition vs Forebode - What's the difference?
premonition | forebode |
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).
To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
* (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
* Tennyson
* Middleton
* H. James
(obsolete) prognostication; presage
As nouns the difference between premonition and forebode
is that premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future while forebode is (obsolete) prognostication; presage.As a verb forebode is
to predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).premonition
English
(wikipedia premonition)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)References
forebode
English
Alternative forms
* forbode (much less commonly used)Verb
(forebod)- There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
- His heart forebodes a mystery.
- Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
- I have a sort of foreboding about him.