Suggestion vs Augury - What's the difference?
suggestion | augury | Related terms |
(countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
(uncountable) The act of suggesting.
(countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
(by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
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As nouns the difference between suggestion and augury
is that suggestion is something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for while augury is a divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.suggestion
English
(wikipedia suggestion)Noun
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
Synonyms
* (something suggested) proposal * See alsoDerived terms
* autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion boxaugury
English
Noun
(auguries)- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
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