postmonition

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noun

An intimation of a past disaster.

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Meanings

nounpostmonition (usually uncountable, plural postmonitions)

plural postmonitions

  1. rareuncountableusuallyAn intimation of a past disaster.

    I have an idea this is not really a premonition but a postmonition, the recovery of a memory.

    2017, Richard Bailey, Rick Bailey, American English, Italian Chocolate, Small Subjects of Great Importance
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    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

    1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a Critical Excursion, Issue 15, page 88

    It is seen afterward to have happened or not to have happened. Not premonition, but rather postmonition.

    2018, Ronald Green, Time To Tell, A Look At How We Tick

Origin

By analogy with premonition.

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APA

postmonition. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmonition

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“postmonition.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmonition. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postmonition,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmonition.

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