premonitions
Feelings of foreboding
Premonitions are feelings that something is about to happen, especially something bad.
The word implies foreknowledge without rational basis—a sense of impending events that arrives unbidden: She had a premonition that the flight would crash.
Premonitions may prove accurate or not; the word describes the feeling, not its validity.
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
feeling · inner voice · psychic · clairvoyance · ESP · presentiment · sense · suspicion
Foretelling of future events
- visionAbility to see
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- portentSign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
augury · omen · divination · soothsaying · foreshadowing · presage · forewarning · prognostication
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
fear · warning · chill · shiver · ominous · eerie · sinister · doom
Frightening dream causing wakefulness
- visionAbility to see
- sleepRecurring unconscious repose
- recurringHappening repeatedly over time
- vividIntensely clear and bright
symbolic · prophetic dream · night terror · visitation · déjà vu · flashforward · lucid · haunting
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
instinct · feeling · inner voice · psychic · clairvoyance · ESP · presentiment · sense · suspicion · awareness
prophecy
Foretelling of future events
harbinger · augury · omen · divination · soothsaying · foreshadowing · presage · forewarning · prognostication · sign
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
anxiety · fear · warning · chill · shiver · ominous · eerie · sinister · doom · gloom
nightmare
Frightening dream causing wakefulness
vivid · symbolic · prophetic dream · night terror · visitation · déjà vu · flashforward · lucid · haunting · wake
- inner lifeidentity, feelings, memory, thoughts, self-discovery
- premonitionsforebodings, presentiments, forewarnings, omens, portents
- intuitive knowledgeinstinct, gut feeling, intuition, tacit knowledge, procedural memory
- paranormal experiencesghost sighting, haunting, apparition, poltergeist, ESP
- prophecyprophecy, prophet, seer, prophets, prophetess
- psychic abilitiesclairvoyance, ESP, precognition, second sight, sixth sense
premonitionshindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · afterthoughts · recollections · memories · reminiscences
premonitionsconfirmations
Acts of proving true
certainties · hard evidence · evidence · proof · knowledge
premonitionsobliviousness
Lack of awareness
blindness · unawareness · ignorance · cluelessness · surprises