different between foretoken vs premonition
foretoken
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foret?cn, foret?cen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- +? token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.
Noun
foretoken (plural foretokens)
- A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentment.
Etymology 2
From Middle English *foretoknen, fortaknen, from Old English foret?cnian (“to foreshow”).
Verb
foretoken (third-person singular simple present foretokens, present participle foretokening, simple past and past participle foretokened)
- (transitive) To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.
Derived terms
- foretokening
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premonition
English
Alternative forms
- præmonition (archaic)
Etymology
Mid 15th century, from Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemoniti?nem (“a forewarning”), form of praemoniti?, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemone?, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + mone? (“to warn”) (from which English monitor).
Compare Germanic forewarning.
Pronunciation
- enPR: pr?m'?-, pr?'m?-n?sh??n
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
premonition (plural premonitions)
- A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- Synonym: vision
- A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- Synonyms: bad feeling, foreboding, gut feeling, hunch, (informal) second sight
Derived terms
- premonitory
Translations
References
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