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Suggestion vs Foreboding - What's the difference?

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Suggestion is a related term of foreboding.


As nouns the difference between suggestion and foreboding

is that suggestion is (countable) something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for ) 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

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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

    foreboding

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forboding (much less commonly used)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sense of evil to come.
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
  • A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
  • An evil omen.
  • Synonyms

    * augury

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
  • Verb

    (head)