Is there a difference between premonition and prophecy?

A premonition is the sensing of a future event. It may or may not be appreciated for what it is. Many people have premonitions they discount and many have premonitions they conclude were simply a lucky guess with no greater significance. It is when people develop faith in the premonitions they experience and begin to share them with others in particular that it becomes a prophecy which is basically a prediction about the future. Another differentiating characteristic is that premonitions may be very detailed and explicit or they might be simply an uneasy feeling or an anxiety that one senses is due to something unexpected about to happen, a sense of foreboding, but with no other information to help the person understand why they are having the feeling. Whereas a prophecy characteristically has a plotline, a theme, a discernible and verifiable event usually either in a general way or perhaps a specific way if it involves specific people and circumstances affecting them as opposed to a sort of general cultural or world event of some kind. Because they are about the future, prophecies, even highly detailed ones, are no more certain to actually come about than premonitions. It is just that it is easier to tell what one is sensing and referring to in describing the perception to others. A very vague, general sense of something may fit a number of different circumstances and be falsely interpreted as having come true. This is less likely to happen with prophecy but it all depends on the nature of the information and the level of detail, and so on, but there is nothing truly carved in stone about future destiny. Everything is a potential until it actually happens in reality. Even specific things planned prior to the life are not guaranteed to happen. They are arranged to have them come about through manipulating circumstances and people who may be important as players in the particular activity to be brought into being, but there can be intervening complications and other circumstances that override local conditions and the future planning and projections. This happens often in human history where things like the outbreak of war or an epidemic or some other misfortune due to a drought or flood or some other natural disaster can completely alter the course of people’s lives.