premonition

premonition
a) A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
b) A strong intuition that something is about to happen.
Syn: bad feeling, gut feeling

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  • prémonition — [ premɔnisjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1842, repris XXe; premonicion XIIIe; de pré et lat. monere « avertir » ♦ Avertissement inexplicable qui s impose à la conscience et fait connaître un événement à l avance ou à distance. ⇒ intuition, pressentiment;… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Premonition — refers to a situation when future events are foreknown or forecast or foretelling. They are attributed by some people to the presence of supernatural or paranormal abilities (see Cassandra myth). However, the distinction between precognition and… …   Wikipedia

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  • Premonition — Prémonition Pour les articles homonymes, voir Prémonition (film, 2004). Une prémonition, du préfixe pre et du latin, monere, désigne le sentiment de savoir ce qui va arriver dans le futur. Une prémonition peut être une conviction que quelque… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Premonition — Студийный альбом Tony MacAlpine Дата выпуска 1994 Жанр инструментальный гитарный рок Продюсер Майк Уорни Лейбл Shrapnel …   Википедия

  • Premonition — Pre mo*ni tion, n. [L. praemonitio. See {Premonish}.] Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • premonition — I noun augury, auspice, boding, caution, divination, evil adumbration, feeling, foreboding, forefeeling, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, hunch, intimation, misgiving, monitio, monitum, omen, portent, prediction, premonishment,… …   Law dictionary

  • premonition — (n.) mid 15c., from Anglo Fr. premunition, from L.L. praemonitionem (nom. praemonitio) a forewarning, from pp. stem of L. praemonere forewarn, from prae before (see PRE (Cf. pre )) + monere to warn (see MONITOR (Cf …   Etymology dictionary

  • premonition — [n] feeling that an event is about to occur apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, feeling in bones*, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on wall*, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage,… …   New thesaurus

  • premonition — ► NOUN ▪ a strong feeling that something is about to happen. DERIVATIVES premonitory adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from praemonere forewarn …   English terms dictionary

  • premonition — [prem΄ə nish′ən, prē΄mənish′ən] n. [MFr premonicion < LL(Ec) praemonitio < L praemonere < prae , before + monere, to warn: see PRE & MONITOR] 1. a warning in advance; a forewarning 2. a feeling that something, esp. something bad, will… …   English World dictionary

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