postmonition

English

Etymology

By analogy with premonition.

Noun

postmonition (usually uncountable, plural postmonitions)

1. (rare) An intimation of a past disaster.
   • 1968, Robert Ligon Harrison, Samuel Beckett's Murphy; a Critical Excursion, Issue 15, page 88:

     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

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

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

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

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