What's the difference between clairvoyance and premonition?

Clairvoyance


Definition:

  • (n.) A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In summary, the development of programs in the community serving the severely and chronically mentally ill is a political-sociological activity requiring a detailed working knowledge of the community to be involved, a clear understanding of objectives and specific agreements related to the program to be developed, adequate and stable funding, appropriate supportive and ancillary resources, significant bureaucratic skill and flexibility, adequate time for appropriate community education and feedback from key community leaders, a certain amount of clairvoyance in anticipating difficulties and unexpected problems, an immense amount of perseverance and, finally--and probably as important as any other single element--timing and luck.
  • (2) She is currently working with a clairvoyant who tells her to do certain things, go to certain places.
  • (3) Carl Jung displayed all five of these features in his life and psychotherapy, including dreams and waking fantasies in childhood; the use of active imagination in the induction of an ASC; contact with forces, knowledge, and power of the unconscious; a dual "personality," and the dialogue with the inner world--the unconscious, the realm of the archetypes; the use of these discoveries to counsel, advise, and heal; and psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences.
  • (4) mystics, conjurors and clairvoyants, set in France and England during the late 1920s, Magic In The Moonlight harks back to the lamest titles in the Woody filmography.
  • (5) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
  • (6) Nor does it take a clairvoyant to imagine that Blair thinks Miliband has aligned himself with the wrong crowd (Blair would never, for example, have been seen as leader on a TUC demo or speaking at the Durham Miner's Gala ).
  • (7) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.
  • (8) For as long as Gibson has been a writer, he has had to remind people not to regard him as a clairvoyant.
  • (9) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
  • (10) The film's US distributors Sony Pictures Classics filled in lots of the blanks on10 July, when they released a long-form synopsis , explaining that Firth plays a stage magician who is on a mission to debunk professional clairvoyant Stone.
  • (11) Tom Binns's masterstroke is to couple his Montfort character with actual clairvoyant ability, or at least, a talent for simulating it.
  • (12) Yell.com listed 1,428 entries under "Psychics and Clairvoyants" when I started work on this in June.
  • (13) And while I don’t have the clairvoyance to predict which of the many cases currently winding their way through the courts will make its way first to the Supreme Court, what I do know is that the ruling in that case, like the decision in Windsor, will be in favor of equality.
  • (14) And there are all sorts of people there, like a retired colonel and a famous lady clairvoyant and an angry young man and a flighty young thing – isn't this just a fascinating cast of characters?
  • (15) Therapists are concerned that the courts are expecting them to be clairvoyant and that psychologists may not be able to predict dangerousness.
  • (16) The former school houses youth clubs, dance sessions, pensioners' get-togethers, and entertainment from taekwondo to clairvoyancy evenings.
  • (17) You saw the results.” The results made Snover look like a clairvoyant and her Republican peers look blind.
  • (18) The trail went cold until 2005, when a self-styled spiritual healer and clairvoyant, Mina Minic, answered a ring on his doorbell in Belgrade to find himself face-to-face with a tall man with a long bushy beard, abundant white hair done up in a top-knot tied with a black ribbon.
  • (19) When Brazil attacked they were thwarted by Bobby Moore who 'as always in this World Cup,' wrote Mcllvanney, 'was magnificent, interpreting the designs of the opposition with clairvoyant understanding and subduing their most spirited assaults with brusque authority.'
  • (20) One doesn’t have to be clairvoyant or even wait for the results, to discern the shape of the future.

Premonition


Definition:

  • (n.) Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was the time he met Steve McQueen in Cornwall in 1970 and joined him as a pillion passenger on a spontaneous four-day off-road motorbike trip, staying in "Devonshire country inns", during which bonding experience McQueen revealed to him, as he had to no one else, his violence toward his first wife, the criminality of his childhood and his premonitions of death (a story which, 40 years on, forms the basis of Steve McQueen: Living on the Edge , recently lucratively serialised in the Sunday Times ).
  • (2) Yuri's gaze turns back to the sky, peppered now with dry fallen leaves (a premonition, perhaps, of the petals cast before the viceroy in A Passage to India).
  • (3) The event begins with a premonition of what will happen from a street name.
  • (4) His distorted image presented in court reflected what some of his accusers were, and what others took to be a premonition of the fall that was coming now that sex, like an Edenic apple, had been tasted for the first time in all its polymorphous perversity.Writing of the effects of liberalising legislation on abortion, gay sex and the reduction of censorship in the 60s, Andrew Marr in A History of Modern Britain stresses this lapsarian image: "A fair verdict is that the changes allowed the British to be more openly themselves, and that while the results are not pretty, the apple of self-knowledge cannot be uneaten again and returned to the tree."
  • (5) Premonition’s technology can optimise large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real-time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination and consumer requests such as redirected parcels.
  • (6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
  • (7) We thought it was a little film for kids: we had absolutely no premonition of the success it would have.
  • (8) Zero carbon emissions target to be enshrined in UK law Read more Premonition is working with close to a dozen Australian clients, including several “household names” with fleets in the range of 2,000-plus vehicles, according to Lorge.
  • (9) He conceded that his mother had gone a little off the rails towards the end of her life by taking up with swamis and yogis and consulting astrologers (she had premonitions, correctly, of a violent death), but she had brought him up to be agnostic and "secular", a word that in India has to bear too much hope.
  • (10) To realistically expand into this domain and have a meaningful impact, Premonition will need to expand its team of nine employees.
  • (11) Back in July, 21 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a skirmish near the Libyan border, in what some considered a premonition of what may be to come.
  • (12) Dreams as premonitions of disease have been reported since the classical era, and hypnagogic hallucinations, so named by Alfred Maury and viewed as "psychosensory hallucinations" by Baillarger in the 1840s (extending the Kantian definition of the madman as a "waking dreamer"), have been reported since the Renaissance.
  • (13) Today, mobile consumers want to be in control, they want to see and understand what’s happening with their delivery in real time, and they want more options and flexibility about when and where their delivery will arrive.” Premonition’s tools help shipping companies communicate directly with consumers and hit tighter delivery windows, with some clients providing windows inside 30 minutes.
  • (14) It shows the virgin with Christ in her lap, but it's a premonition of the Pietà .
  • (15) Various functions of the ego influence how time is experienced consciously, leading to phenomena such as déjà vu, a sensation of timelessness, misjudgment of time duration, the experience of premonition.
  • (16) Fits and coronary thrombosis, of which drivers frequently had some premonition, caused few serious accidents, although the latter was usually lethal.
  • (17) IBM is testing a robot concierge in a Hilton hotel , something that is both a gimmick and a premonition.
  • (18) I think it might have been a premonition on her part.
  • (19) He says Premonition’s approach is to think “about logistics as a service to consumers rather than just a network of trucks”.
  • (20) The wintry scene outside her window that morning, Wadley told the newsroom, had prompted a premonition: "I thought, 'the Russians really are coming'."