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postmonition

noun

Etymology

By analogy with premonition.

Definitions

  1. An intimation of a past disaster.

    • In this way the annunciation is made to Murphy. After the dream he has a vague "postmonition of calamity" and the groundwork is laid for his final excursion into chaos
    • I have an idea this is not really a premonition but a postmonition, the recovery of a memory.
    • It is seen afterward to have happened or not to have happened. Not premonition, but rather postmonition.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA