different between premonition vs telling

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

Translations

References

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Etymology 1

Verb

telling

1. present participle of tell

Adjective

telling (comparative more telling, superlative most telling)

1. Having force, or having a marked effect; weighty, effective.

2. Revealing information; bearing significance.
3. Serving to convince.

Derived terms

• tellingly
• tellingness

Etymology 2

Gerund from the verb tell, from tell +? -ing.

Noun

telling (plural tellings)

1. The act of narration.
2. The disclosure of information.
3. (archaic) Counting, numbering.
4. (chiefly in the negative) Ability to determine.

Synonyms

• (counting, numbering): enumeration; see also Thesaurus:counting

Anagrams

• gillnet

Dutch

Etymology

From tellen +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tel?ling

Noun

telling f (plural tellingen, diminutive tellinkje n)

1. counting, count

Derived terms

• jaartelling

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From telle +? -ing.

Noun

telling f or m (definite singular tellinga or tellingen, indefinite plural tellinger, definite plural tellingene)

1. counting, a count (act of counting)

Derived terms

• folketelling
• nedtelling

See also

• teljing (Nynorsk)

References

• “telling” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “telling” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

West Frisian

Etymology

From telle +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l??/

Noun

telling c (plural tellingen)

1. counting, count

Derived terms

• jiertelling

Further reading

• “telling”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011