Presage vs. Premonition — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Presage and Premonition
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Presage
An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen.
Premonition
A presentiment of the future; a foreboding
I had a premonition that our risky endeavor would end badly.
Presage
A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment.
Premonition
A warning in advance; a forewarning
That skirmish was a premonition of battles to come.
Presage
Prophetic significance or meaning.
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Premonition
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
Presage
(Archaic) A prediction.
Premonition
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Presage
To indicate or warn of in advance; portend.
Premonition
Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
Presage
To have a presentiment of.
Premonition
A feeling of evil to come;
A steadily escalating sense of foreboding
The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
Presage
To foretell or predict.
Premonition
An early warning about a future event
Presage
To make or utter a prediction.
Presage
A warning of a future event; an omen.
Presage
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
Presage
(transitive) To predict or foretell something.
Presage
(intransitive) To make a prediction.
Presage
(transitive) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Presage
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
If there be aught of presage in the mind.
Presage
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Presage
To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
Presage
To form or utter a prediction; - sometimes used with of.
Presage
A foreboding about what is about to happen
Presage
A sign of something about to happen;
He looked for an omen before going into battle
Presage
Indicate by signs;
These signs bode bad news
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