Foreboding vs Presage - What's the difference?
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A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
A warning of a future event; an omen.
An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
To predict or foretell something.
* Shakespeare
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To make a prediction.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
Foreboding is a related term of presage.
As verbs the difference between foreboding and presage
is that foreboding is while presage is .As a noun foreboding
is a sense of evil to come.As an adjective foreboding
is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.foreboding
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Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.
Synonyms
* auguryAdjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)presage
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(presag)- My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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