Presage vs Prognostic - What's the difference?
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A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
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To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(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 presage and prognostic
is that presage is a warning of a future event; an omen while prognostic is prognosis.As a verb presage
is to predict or foretell something.As an adjective prognostic is
of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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Synonyms
* foreshadow * portendprognostic
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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.