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premonition

/ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English

Syllables
pre-mo-ni-tion
IPA
/ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

noun

A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

Example Sentences

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.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

premonitions (plural) præmonition (alternative, archaic)

Derived Forms

premonitional premonitionary premonitory

Frequently Paired Words

postmonition

Synonyms

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

Rhymes With

position addition competition commission mission condition edition definition opposition permission tradition recognition

Questions

How do you pronounce premonition?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/.
What does premonition mean?
A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
Where does premonition come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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