characterized by or pertaining to emotion: the emotive and rational capacities of humankind. productive of or directed toward the emotions: Artistic distortion is often an emotive use of form.
portent. A phenomenon that serves as a sign or warning of some future good or evil: augury, forerunner, foretoken, omen, prefigurement, presage, prognostic, prognostication, sign. Idiom: writing on the wall.
foment (third-person singular simple present foments, present participle fomenting, simple past and past participle fomented) 1  To incite or cause troublesome acts; to encourage; to instigate. ( 2 medicine) To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.