Advertisement

presentiment (n.)

"a direct, though vague, perception of a future event," 1714, from French presentiment (Modern French pressentiment), from pressentir "to have foreboding," from Latin praesentire "to sense or feel beforehand," from prae "before" (see pre-) + sentire "perceive, feel" (see sense (n.)). Especially a feeling that some misfortune or calamity is about to happen, a foreboding.

Others are reading

Advertisement
Definitions of presentiment from WordNet

presentiment (n.)
a feeling of evil to come;
the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
Synonyms: foreboding / premonition / boding
From wordnet.princeton.edu