What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Premonition vs Pessimism - What's the difference?

premonition | pessimism |

As nouns the difference between premonition and pessimism

is that premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future while pessimism is a general belief that bad things will happen.

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)

    References

    pessimism

    English

    (wikipedia pessimism)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A general belief that bad things will happen.
  • The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds.

    • Related terms

    * pessimist * pessimistic

    Antonyms

    * optimism

    External links

    * * * English words suffixed with -ism ----