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Webster 1913 Edition

Premonition

Preˊmo-ni′tion

,

Noun.

[L.

praemonitio

. See

.]

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning;

as, a

premonition

of danger

.

Webster 1828 Edition

Premonition

PREMONI'TION

,

Noun.

Previous warning,notice or information. Christ gave to his disciples premonitions of their sufferings.

Definition 2024

premonition

premonition

See also: prémonition

English

Alternative forms

præmonition (obsolete)

Noun

premonition ‎(plural premonitions)

A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

Derived terms

premonitory

Synonyms

bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight (informal)

Translations

clairvoyant or clairaudient experience

Arabic: رُؤْيَة f ‎(ruʾya)
Finnish: enneuni, enne (fi)
Greek: προαίσθημα (el) ‎(proaísthima)
Icelandic: fyrirboði (is) m, (warning) viðvörun (is)
Italian: premonizione (it) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: syn (no) n, varsel (no) n

Portuguese: premonição (pt) f
Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n ‎(predčúvstvije) (the first в is silent)
Serbo-Croatian: predosećanje
Slovene: slutnja f
Swedish: varsel (sv) n, förebud (sv) n

strong intuition

Arabic: نُبُوءَة f ‎(nubūʾa), حَدْس m ‎(ḥads)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 預感 (zh), 预感 (zh) ‎(yùgǎn)
Czech: předtucha f
Dutch: voorgevoel (nl)
Finnish: ennakkoaavistus, etiäinen (fi)
German: Vorahnung (de) f
Italian: premonizione (it) f, presentimento (it) m, presagio (it) m, predizione f

Japanese: 予感 (ja) ‎(よかん, yokan)
Korean: 예감 (ko) ‎(yegam) (豫感 (ko))
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forutanelse m
Portuguese: pressentimento (pt)
Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n ‎(predčúvstvije) (the first в is silent)
Serbo-Croatian: predosećaj (sh), slutnja (sh) f
Spanish: presentimiento (es) m, premonición f
Swedish: föraning (sv) c
Tagalog: salagimsim

References

↑ “premonition” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).