Premonition vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
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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).
(rare, medicine) prognosis
A sign by which a future event may be known or foretold.
A prediction of the future.
* Macaulay
One who predicts the future.
As nouns the difference between premonition and prognostic
is that premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future while prognostic is prognosis.As an adjective prognostic is
of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.premonition
English
(wikipedia premonition)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)References
prognostic
English
Alternative forms
* prognostick (obsolete)Synonyms
* foretelling * predictiveNoun
(en noun)- (Parr)
- Careful observers may foretell the hour
- (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show’r.
- While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o’er
- Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more. Jonathan Swift
- The choice of a successor was no light matter. That choice would inevitably be considered by the country as a prognostic of the highest import.