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| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, feeling, foreboding, funny feeling, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, presage, presentiment, sign, suspicion, warning, apprehensiveness, feeling in bones, forewarning, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, vibrations, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuition |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense*, telepathy |
| Notes: | clairvoyance is a form of ESP, precognition is seeing into the future, and telepathy is mind training and thought transference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | divination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortune-telling |
| Synonyms: | augury, prediction, premonition, prophecy, clairvoyancy, horoscopy, occultism, palmistry, prognostication, soothsaying |
| Main Entry: | foreboding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misgiving, bad omen |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, augury, chill, dread, fear, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, presentiment, prophecy, warning, apprehensiveness, bad vibes, foreshadowing, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, sinking feeling, vibes, wind change |
| Antonyms: | fortune, luck, providence, good omen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foresight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental preparedness |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, care, caution, clairvoyance, discernment, discretion, economy, foreknowledge, forethought, insight, perception, precaution, precognition, preconception, premeditation, premonition, prescience, prospect, providence, provision, prudence, sagacity, canniness, carefulness, circumspection, discreetness, far-sightedness, long-sightedness, prenotion |
| Antonyms: | hindsight, ignorance, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling*, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
| Antonyms: | proof, reality, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intuition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, clairvoyance, discernment, divination, feeling*, foreknowledge, gut reaction*, hunch*, inspiration, instinct, nose*, penetration, perception, premonition, presentiment, second sight*, sixth sense*, innate knowledge, intuitiveness, perceptivity |
| Antonyms: | knowledge, reason, reasoning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misgiving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, distrust, doubt, fear, foreboding, hesitation, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, qualm, reservation, scruple, suspicion, worry, apprehensiveness, prenotion, unbelief, unease |
| Antonyms: | certainty, confidence, trust, doubtlessness, sureness |
| Main Entry: | omen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign of something to come |
| Synonyms: | augury, foreboding, harbinger, indication, portent, premonition, presage, prophecy, straw, warning, writing on the wall*, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, prognostic, prognostication |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | precognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clairvoyance |
| Synonyms: | ESP, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, foresight, insight, intuition, omen, penetration, perception, prediction, premonition, prophecy, psyche, second sight, sixth sense*, telepathy, extra sensory perception, fortune-telling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, augury, forecast, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, presentiment, prophecy, sign, warning, apprehensiveness, auspice, bodement, boding, foretoken, forewarning, prenotion, prognostic, prognostication |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling*, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, presage, apprehensiveness, discomposure, feeling in bones, handwriting on wall, prenotion, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sixth sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extrasensory perception |
| Synonyms: | ESP, ESP*, clairvoyance, divination, extrasensory perception, feeling, feeling in one's bones, foreknowledge, foresight, gut feeling, gut feeling, hunch, insight, instinct, intuition, intuitiveness, keen intuition, perception, premonition, second sight, second sight*, telepathy, vibes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | telepathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to know another's thoughts |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, insight, premonition, presentiment, second sight*, sixth sense*, mind-reading, parapsychology, spiritualism, telepathic transmission, telesthesia, thought transference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | warning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | notice of possible occurrence |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advice, alarm, alert, augury, caution, caveat, distress signal, example, exhortation, fore, guidance, hint, indication, information, injunction, intimation, lesson, look out*, notification, omen, portent, prediction, premonition, presage, recommendation, sign, signal, suggestion, threat, tip, token, wink, word, word to the wise, Mayday, SOS, foretoken, forewarning, handwriting on wall, heads up, tip-off, watch-it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | foreknowledge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foresight |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, hunch, precognition, premonition, prescience |
| Main Entry: | sign of things to come |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | omen |
| Synonyms: | handwriting on the wall, harbinger, portent, prediction, premonition, sign, signal, warning, danger sign, foreshadowing, preindication, warning sign |
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, hope, impatience, joy, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust, foretaste, high hopes, looking forward |
| Antonyms: | amazement, astonishment, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder |
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, fear |
| Synonyms: | alarm, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, foreboding, misgiving, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, suspicion, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, apprehensiveness |
| Antonyms: | calmness, ease |
| Main Entry: | portent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indication, forewarning |
| Synonyms: | augury, caution, clue, foreboding, funny feeling*, handwriting on the wall, harbinger, hunch, omen, premonition, presage, presentiment, sign, threat, warning, bodement, boding, foreshadowing, foretoken, prognostic, prognostication, sinking feeling, vibes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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