premonition
Sense of dread
A premonition is a feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad.
Unlike a prediction based on evidence, a premonition arrives as intuition or unease: She had a premonition that something was wrong.
The word often appears in stories where the feeling proves justified—a sense of foreboding that precedes disaster.
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- signMark conveying information
- auguryOmen interpretation practice
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
foretoken · auspice · warning sign · indicator · signal · herald · boding · ill omen
Foretelling of future events
- visionAbility to see
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
soothsayer · prophet · prognostication · foretelling · revelation · sibyl · augur · fortune-telling
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
feeling · suspicion · sense · intuitive · perception · awareness · discernment · inner voice
Frightening dream causing wakefulness
- visionAbility to see
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
- flashBrief burst of light
glimpse · specter · phantasm · visitation · night terror · vivid dream · waking dream · déjà vu
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
misgiving · disquiet · anxiety · doom · gloom · chill · shiver · ominous
Extrasensory perception ability
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- telepathyDirect mental communication
psychic · second sight · foresight · prescience · medium · channeling · sensitive · gifted
portent
Sign of future calamity
foreshadowing · foretoken · auspice · warning sign · indicator · signal · herald · boding · ill omen · bad sign
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
divination · soothsayer · prophet · prognostication · foretelling · revelation · sibyl · augur · fortune-telling · prediction
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
inkling · feeling · suspicion · sense · intuitive · perception · awareness · discernment · inner voice · nagging feeling
nightmare
Frightening dream causing wakefulness
- visionAbility to see
- dreamSleeping mind's narrative
- apparitionVisible supernatural manifestation
flash · glimpse · specter · phantasm · visitation · night terror · vivid dream · waking dream · déjà vu · hallucination
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
trepidation · misgiving · disquiet · anxiety · doom · gloom · chill · shiver · ominous · eerie
clairvoyance
Extrasensory perception ability
- ESPParanormal mental faculty
- extrasensoryBeyond ordinary perception
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
telepathy · psychic · second sight · foresight · prescience · medium · channeling · sensitive · gifted · paranormal
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- psychicspsychic, psychics, fortune teller, clairvoyant, clairvoyants
- parapsychologyESP, ghosts, psi, mediums, telepathy
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, forecasts
- gut feelingsgut feeling, gut instinct, gut reaction, hunch, instinct
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
premonitionhindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · afterthought · postmortem · looking back · backward glance
premonitionignorance
Absence of knowledge
unawareness · obliviousness · unconcern · blindness · cluelessness
premonitionshock
Violent sudden disturbance
surprise · ambush · bolt from the blue · rude awakening · blindside