noun
premonition
pree-muh-NIH-shuhn
noun
1
A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, before there is any real evidence of it.
"She had a premonition of disaster the moment she boarded the plane."
"He couldn't shake the premonition that something was terribly wrong at home."
How to Use Premonition
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA gut feeling that something is going to happen before it actually does.
Common pairings
a sense of premonition
premonition of danger
Word Forms
premonitions plural
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman premunition, from Ecclesiastical Latin praemonitio ("a forewarning"), from Latin praemoneo ("to warn beforehand"), from prae- ("before") plus moneo ("to warn") — the same root that gives us "monitor."