Difference between Foreboding and Premonition

What is the difference between Foreboding and Premonition?

Foreboding as a noun is a sense of evil to come. while Premonition as a noun is a clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

Foreboding

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sense of evil to come. An evil omen.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of ominous significance.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).

Premonition

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.A strong intuition that something is about to happen.

We hope you now know whether to use Foreboding or Premonition in your sentence.

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