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Symptom vs Presage - What's the difference?

symptom | presage | Related terms |

Symptom is a related term of presage.


As a noun symptom

is symptom, sign.

As a verb presage is

.

symptom

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See also

    Antonyms

    * Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

    Derived terms

    * symptomatology * symptomless

    presage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A warning of a future event; an omen.
  • An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
  • Verb

    (presag)
  • To predict or foretell something.
  • * Shakespeare
  • My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
  • , 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.
  • Synonyms

    * foreshadow * portend