premonition
a feeling that something is going to happen
TRANSLATION
German translation: premonition = die Vorahnung --- GOOGLE INDEX premonition: approximately 4,000,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
While he was still weighing up whether to run for the presidency, Bush apparently confided in a Texan evangelist, James Robinson, that he had a PREMONITION of national tragedy. "I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can't explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me."
(The Guardian)
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"He painted, or made a lot of art ... He must have had a PREMONITION that his life was going to be a short one, and he just worked like a maniac."
curator Elisabeth Sussman commenting on the artist Keith Haring
(The Guardian)
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"He painted, or made a lot of art ... He must have had a PREMONITION that his life was going to be a short one, and he just worked like a maniac."
curator Elisabeth Sussman commenting on the artist Keith Haring
Did you
know?
premonition
noun
- a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Premonition (ca. 1456) is from the Anglo-French premunition and the Late Latin præmonitio, "a forewarning" (prae=before + monitio=warning).
While human premonitions are well documented, scientists and animal lovers alike believe animals possess this capability as well. There is evidence that some animals can detect earthquake activity before humans recognise the first signs of trembling. But this is usually attributed more to an animal's finely tuned senses than what we think of as a premonition.
Then there is Oscar, a cat that was adopted by a nursing home in Rhode Island in the U.S.Oscar likes to curl up beside patients who are in their final hours. Researchers observed the feline for two years and watched as he lay next to 25 patients who eventually passed away within the next several hours. The nursing home staff now alerts families when Oscar takes his place next to one of the patients. As David Dosa, a Brown University professor who carried out the research, says, "He doesn't make many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to pass away."
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SYNONYMS
apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I have a premonition that we're going to win this big contract."
Thanks to Sybillia for suggesting today's word!
noun
- a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Premonition (ca. 1456) is from the Anglo-French premunition and the Late Latin præmonitio, "a forewarning" (prae=before + monitio=warning).
While human premonitions are well documented, scientists and animal lovers alike believe animals possess this capability as well. There is evidence that some animals can detect earthquake activity before humans recognise the first signs of trembling. But this is usually attributed more to an animal's finely tuned senses than what we think of as a premonition.
Then there is Oscar, a cat that was adopted by a nursing home in Rhode Island in the U.S.Oscar likes to curl up beside patients who are in their final hours. Researchers observed the feline for two years and watched as he lay next to 25 patients who eventually passed away within the next several hours. The nursing home staff now alerts families when Oscar takes his place next to one of the patients. As David Dosa, a Brown University professor who carried out the research, says, "He doesn't make many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to pass away."
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SYNONYMS
apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"I have a premonition that we're going to win this big contract."
Thanks to Sybillia for suggesting today's word!
