different between premunition vs premonition

English

Noun

premunition (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Immunization due to having had the disease before.

   premunition to chickenpox

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with premonition.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praemonitio.

Noun

premunition f (oblique plural premunitions, nominative singular premunition, nominative plural premunitions)

1. (Anglo-Norman) forewarning; advanced warning

Descendants

• ? English: premonition

References

• premunition on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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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