different between manifestation vs premonition

English

Etymology

From Latin manifestatio.Morphologically manifest +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn?f??ste???n/, /?mæn?f??ste???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

manifestation (countable and uncountable, plural manifestations)

1. The act or process of becoming manifest.

   The last known manifestation of the ghost was over ten years ago.

2. The embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing.

   This particular manifestation resembled a young girl crying.

3. (medicine) The symptoms or observable conditions which are seen as a result of some disease.
4. A pattern or logo on a sheet of glass, as decoration and/or to prevent people from accidentally walking into it.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin manifestatio

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ni.f?s.ta.sj??/

Noun

manifestation f (plural manifestations)

1. protest, demonstration
2. expression
3. assembly, gathering (of people for an event)
4. creation

Related terms

• manifester
• manifest

Further reading

• “manifestation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

manifestation (plural manifestationes)

1. manifestation

Swedish

Noun

manifestation c

1. manifestation

Declension

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)

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

   Synonym: vision

2. 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

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