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.
threshold. n. 1. (Building) Also called: doorsill a sill, esp one made of stone or hardwood, placed at a doorway. 2. any doorway or entrance. 3. the starting point of an experience, event, or venture: on the threshold of manhood.