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Suggestion vs Augury - What's the difference?

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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

Noun

  • (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
  • 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.
  • (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
  • (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

    Synonyms

    * (something suggested) proposal * See also

    Derived terms

    * autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion box

    augury

    English

    Noun

    (auguries)
  • A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
  • (by extension) An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
  • * (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • 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.
  • An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=2 citation , passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hyponyms

    * ailuromancy, felidomancy (cats) * alectryomancy (chickens) * arachnomancy (spiders) * auspice (birds) * entomomancy (insects) * hippomancy (horses) * ichthyomancy (fish) * myomancy (mice) * myrmomancy (ants) * ophiomancy (snakes) * zoomancy (any animal)