Symptom vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
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(medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
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.
Symptom is a related term of foreboding.
As nouns the difference between symptom and foreboding
is that symptom is symptom, sign while 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.As a verb foreboding is
.symptom
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* indication * manifestation * sign, signal * See alsoAntonyms
* Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of causeDerived terms
* symptomatology * symptomlessExternal links
* * ----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.