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premonition

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  • //ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən//
  • //ˌprɛ-//

A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

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  1. 1

    A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

  2. 2

    A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

    The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.

Etimologia

First use appears c. 1533. From Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemonitiōnem (“a forewarning”), form of praemonitiō, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemoneō, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + moneō (“to warn”) (from which English monitor). Compare Germanic forewarning.

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