different between foreboding vs consternation
foreboding
English
Alternative forms
- forboding (much less commonly used)
Etymology
From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- +? boding. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
Noun
foreboding (plural forebodings)
- A sense of evil to come.
- Synonym: augury
- An evil omen.
Translations
Adjective
foreboding (comparative more foreboding, superlative most foreboding)
- Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
Verb
foreboding
- present participle of forebode
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consternation
English
Etymology
From French consternation, from Latin constern?ti?.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.st??ne?.??n/
- (US) enPR: k?n?st?r.n?'sh?n, IPA(key): /?k?n.st??ne??.??n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
consternation (countable and uncountable, plural consternations)
- Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening
- "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
- 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 17:
- Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation.
- February 27, 2006, Chuck Klosterman in Esquire, Invention's New Mother
- It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
- 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin constern?ti?. Morphologically, from consterner +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??s.t??.na.sj??/
Noun
consternation f (plural consternations)
- consternation
Further reading
- “consternation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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