Synonyms for premonition
Most common
foreboding presage precognition prescience vision presentiment
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Foreboding — A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively)
foreboding, precognition, prescience, presage, bad feeling, hunch, foreknowledge, gut feeling, second sight informal, omen
2. Forewarning
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- n. 2
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
Related words
- Word family
- premonitory
Forms
- Plural
- premonitions → forebodings, precognitions, presciences, presages…
Example sentences
- foreboding Despite her foreboding, Mary entered the cellar.
- presage A crow's cry at midnight was said to presage death in the village.
- precognition Tom believes in precognition.
- vision Her glasses let her see with twenty-twenty vision.
- presentiment I had a presentiment that you would come this evening.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| premonition | rising | |
| foreboding | rising | |
| presage | steady | |
| precognition | steady | |
| prescience | steady | |
| vision | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- omen2
- 5 letters
- hunch1
- 6 letters
- vision2
- 7 letters
- presage2
- 9 letters
- harbinger3
- 10 letters
- forerunner3, foreboding3, prescience3
- 11 letters
- forewarning3
- 12 letters
- precognition, presentiment
- 13 letters
- foreknowledge
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (omen2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- prémonition
- Italiano
- premonizione
- Deutsch
- Vorahnung