Presentiment vs Harbinger - What's the difference?
presentiment | harbinger |
A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
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* 1973 , Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight :
A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
* Landor
(obsolete) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
As nouns the difference between presentiment and harbinger
is that presentiment is a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen while harbinger is a person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.As a verb harbinger is
to announce; to be a harbinger of.presentiment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l)harbinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- I knew by these harbingers who were coming.
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