Premonition vs Trepidation - 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).
A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.
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An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
(astronomy, obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.
As nouns the difference between premonition and trepidation
is that premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future while trepidation is a fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.premonition
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(wikipedia premonition)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)References
trepidation
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Noun
(-)- I decided, with considerable trepidation , to let him drive my car without me.
- She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation . Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
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