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What conclusion can be drawn from the words "premonition" and "foreboding"?

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These two words are different because they have different connotations. Whereas premonition means you can forseeĀ the future, with a neutral connotation, foreboding usually means foreseeing that something bad is going to happen, so it has a negative connotation.
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The answer to the question is that both words, being synonym words, mean that a person is sensing, or feeling, without actual knowledge, that something wrong is about to happen.

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When looked in a dictionary, both words appear as synonymous and both of them give the same sense, that when a person has a foreboding, or a premonition, it means that they are sensing something that hasnĀ“t yet happen, for which there is no real, physical, sensorial evidence yet, but which the person can still sense, and that will be bad. However, one minor difference is that while a premonition indicates a mental sensing of something happening that is wrong, foreboding indicates more an emotional, or sensorial acknowledgement that something wrong is going to happen.

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