postmonition
nounEtymology By analogy with premonition.
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Rare, Usually 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 chaos1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a Critical Excursion, Issue 15, page 88:
- 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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- 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: