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for premonition
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Premonition \Pre`mo*ni"tion\, n. [L. praemonitio. See
Premonish.]
Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a
premonition of danger.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
premonition
n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of
foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge
would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition,
presentiment, boding]
2: an early warning about a future event [syn: forewarning,
premonition]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "premonition":
ESP, advance notice, apprehensiveness, clairsentience,
clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, feeling, foreboding,
forefeeling, foresight, forewarning, funny feeling, hunch,
impression, insight, intimation, intuition, intuitive impression,
lucidity, misgiving, plenty of notice, portent, preapprehension,
precautioning, prediction, prenotice, prenotification, prenotion,
presage, presagement, presentiment, prewarning, psychometry,
second sight, sixth sense, sneaking suspicion, suspicion,
vague feeling, vague idea
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