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Foreboding vs Disquietude - What's the difference?

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Foreboding is a related term of disquietude.


As nouns the difference between foreboding and disquietude

is that foreboding is a sense of evil to come while disquietude is (uncountable) a state of disquiet, uneasiness, or anxiety.

As an adjective foreboding

is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

As a verb foreboding

is .

foreboding

English

Alternative forms

* forboding (much less commonly used)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sense of evil to come.
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
    • A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
  • An evil omen.

    • Synonyms

    * augury

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • disquietude

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A state of disquiet, uneasiness, or anxiety.
  • * :
    • but Mr Blifil said, he had received such positive and repeated orders from his uncle, never to keep any secret from him for fear of the disquietude which it might give him, that he durst not think of disobedience, whatever might be the consequence.
  • * 1795 , "The Life of John Bunyan," in the Collins Clear-Type Press ed. of The Pilgrim's Progress , p. xiv:
    • He was at length called forth, and set apart by fasting and prayer to the ministerial office, which he executed with faithfulness and success during a long course of years; though frequently with the greatest trepidation and inward disquietude .
  • (countable) A fear or an instance of uneasiness.
  • * 1813 , Laurence Sterne, The works of Laurence Sterne: with a life of the author , Volume 2, page 347:
    • The cares and disquietudes of the marriage-state, quoth Mrs. Wadman, are very great.