Prognostication vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
prognostication | foreboding | Related terms |
A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
* 1837 , The Dublin University Magazine
A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Prognostication is a related term of foreboding.
As nouns the difference between prognostication and foreboding
is that prognostication is a statement about or prior knowledge of the future while foreboding is a sense of evil to come.As an adjective foreboding is
of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.As a verb foreboding is
.prognostication
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Noun
(en noun)- She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications , but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
