Symptom vs Presage - What's the difference?
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(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}
To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Symptom is a related term of presage.
As a noun symptom
is symptom, sign.As a verb presage is
.symptom
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See alsoAntonyms
* Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of causeDerived terms
* symptomatology * symptomlessExternal links
* * ----presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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