different between prognosis vs presentiment
prognosis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin progn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (prógn?sis, “foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from prefix ???- (pro-, “before”) + ?????? (gnôsis, “inquiry, investigation, knowing”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “know”). First attested in the mid 17th century. Equivalent to Germanic cognate foreknowledge, Latinate cognate precognition, and Sanskritic cognate prajna.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p????n??s?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /p????no?s?s/
Noun
prognosis (plural prognoses)
- (medicine) A forecast of the future course of a disease or disorder, based on medical knowledge.
- (medicine) The chances of recovery from a disease.
- 1861, John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith, An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science, Blanchard and Lea, page 858,
- The prognosis is unfavourable when the child is very young, when the eruption appears before the third day, or when it suddenly disappears.
- 1987, Constance S. Kirkpatrick, Nurses' Guide to Cancer Care, Rowman and Littlefield, ?ISBN, page 132,
- Once the patient has worked through the stage of grieving at diagnosis, adjustment may be successful as therapy is begun and a prognosis is determined.
- 1861, John Neill, Francis Gurney Smith, An Analytical Compendium of the Various Branches of Medical Science, Blanchard and Lea, page 858,
- A forecast of the future course, or outcome, of a situation; a prediction.
- 2008, Paul Fairfield, Why Democracy?, SUNY Press, ?ISBN, page 123,
- If free speech is the lifeblood of democracy then the fate and the prognosis of the latter are that of the former.
- 2000, Guy R. Woolley, J. J. J. M. Goumans, P. J. Wainwright, Waste Materials in Construction, Elsevier, ?ISBN, page 19,
- The prognosis was made by taking into consideration the facts that the analog concrete had already achieved its ultimate strength by the period of 1500 days while concrete being predicted was to gain its strength limit by 1.25 time faster, that is by the period of 100 days.
- 2008, Paul Fairfield, Why Democracy?, SUNY Press, ?ISBN, page 123,
Derived terms
- prognostic
- prognosticate
- prognostication
Translations
References
- 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
- 1998, The Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Dorling Kindersley Limited and Oxford University Press, ?ISBN, page 654
- 2007, Ed. Elizabeth A. Martin, Concise Medical Dictionary, Oxford University Press, ?ISBN
- “prognosis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (prógn?sis, “foreknowledge, perceiving beforehand, prediction”), from prefix ???- (pro-, “before”) + ?????? (gnôsis, “inquiry, investigation, knowing”), from ???????? (gign?sk?, “know”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pro??no?.sis/, [p????no?s??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro???o.sis/, [p???????s?is]
Noun
progn?sis f (genitive progn?sis); third declension
- forecast, prediction
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Descendants
References
- prognosis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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presentiment
English
Etymology
From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- +? sentiment.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/
- (US) IPA(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/
Noun
presentiment (plural presentiments)
- A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:
- Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.
- 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:
- Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:
Synonyms
- boding
- foreboding
- forefeeling
- premonition
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French pressentiment
Noun
presentiment n (plural presentimente)
- presentiment
Declension
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