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Premonition vs Foresight - What's the difference?

premonition | foresight |

As nouns the difference between premonition and foresight

is that premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future while foresight is the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

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)

    References

    foresight

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.
  • Having the foresight to prepare an evacuation plan may have saved their lives.
  • the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon
  • (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object
  • Synonyms

    * (ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future) prescience, foreknowledge, divination, clairvoyance, prophecy

    Antonyms

    * hindsight

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)