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Superstition vs Premonition - What's the difference?

superstition | premonition |

As nouns the difference between superstition and premonition

is that superstition is superstition while premonition is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

superstition

English

(wikipedia superstition)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.

    • Related terms

    * superstitious

    premonition

    English

    (wikipedia premonition)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
  • A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

    • Synonyms

    * bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

    References