premonition

• præmonition (obsolete)

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).[1]

Compare Germanic forewarning.

• enPR: prĕm'ə-, prē'mə-nĭshʹən
• Rhymes: -ɪʃən

premonition (plural premonitions)

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).

• (clairvoyant experience): vision
• (intution that something will happen): bad feeling, gut feeling, foreboding, hunch, second sight (informal)

• premonitory