premonition

Meanings

Noun

a feeling of evil to come
an early warning about a future event
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).

Origin / Etymology

First use appears c. 1533. From Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemonitiōnem (“a forewarning”), form of praemonitiō, from Latin praemonitus, past participle of praemoneō, from prae (“before”) (English pre-) + moneō (“to warn”) (from which English monitor). Compare Germanic forewarning.

Synonyms

bad feeling, boding, foreboding, forewarning, gut feeling, hunch, presentiment, second sight, vision

Scrabble Score: 15

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Words With Friends Score: 19

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