different between intimation vs premonition
intimation
English
Etymology
From Middle French intimation, from Latin intimatio
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt??me???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
intimation (plural intimations)
- The act of intimating.
- The thing intimated.
- Announcement; declaration.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
- A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference.
- 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
- At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 378:
- And actually I had important intimations to communicate as he faced the end. But intimations weren't much use.
- 1862, Henry David Thoreau, Walking:
Translations
Related terms
- intimacy
- intimate
References
- “intimation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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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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