presentiment
presentiment
foreboding; a vague expectation: I had a presentiment that there would be an accident.
Not to be confused with:
presentment – an act or manner of presenting; the act of presenting information: The principal made the presentment.
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pre·sen·ti·ment
(prĭ-zĕn′tə-mənt)n.
A sense that something is about to occur; a premonition.
[Obsolete French, from presentir, to feel beforehand, from Latin praesentīre : prae-, pre- + sentīre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]
pre·sen′ti·men′tal (-mĕn′tl) adj.
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presentiment
(prɪˈzɛntɪmənt)n
a sense of something about to happen; premonition
[C18: from obsolete French, from pressentir to sense beforehand; see pre-, sentiment]
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pre•sen•ti•ment
(prɪˈzɛn tə mənt)n.
a feeling that something is about to happen, esp. something evil; foreboding.
[1705–15; < French, now obsolete spelling of pressentiment. See pre-, sentiment]
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| Noun | 1. | presentiment - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" shadow - a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness" presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen |
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presentiment
noun premonition, feeling, expectation, anticipation, fear, forecast, hunch, intuition, apprehension, misgiving, foreboding, presage, forethought He had a presentiment of disaster.
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presentiment
n → (Vor)ahnung f, → Vorgefühl nt; to have a presentiment of something → eine Vorahnung von etw haben; to have a presentiment that … → das Gefühl haben, dass …
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