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presentiment
[ pri-zen-tuh-muhnt ]
noun
- a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
presentiment
/ ɪˈɛԳɪəԳ /
noun
- a sense of something about to happen; premonition
Other 51Թ Forms
- ·t·Գa adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of presentiment1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of presentiment1
Example Sentences
It’s the type of hazards and presentiment that feel inherent to womanhood.
By late 2016, the seeming permanence of her move is threatened by apocalyptic presentiments unleashed by election anxiety.
Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?”
I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
Writing later of the bizarre extravaganza that took place that summer, de Coubertin said: “I had a sort of presentiment that the Olympiad would match the mediocrity of the town.”
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