Premonition

Pronunciation

• enPR: prÄ•m'É™-, prÄ“'mÉ™-nÄ­shʹən

Alternative forms

• præmonition obsolete

Origin

Mid 15th century, from Anglo-Norman premunition, from Late Latin praemonitionem ("a forewarning"), form of praemonitio, from Latin praemonitius, form of praemoneō, from prae ("before") (English pre-) + monere ("to warn") (from which English monitor).

Online Etymology Dictionary

Compare Germanic foretelling, forewarning.

Full definition of premonition

Noun

1. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
2. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

Synonyms

• bad feeling, gut feeling, vision, second sight informal