presentiment
/prɪˈzɛntɪm(ə)nt
/ /prɪˈsɛntɪm(ə)nt/noun
An intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding: a presentiment of disaster...
- Often Hou's images seem like presentiments of future memories rather than representations of present happenings.
- He hoped that we could meet some other time, but I had a presentiment that a future occasion may not be possible in this world.
- But there was the tiniest presentiment of disaster.
Synonyms
premonition, foreboding, intuition, feeling, hunch, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, feeling in one's bones, funny feeling, vague feeling, inkling, idea, sixth sense;
misgiving, worry, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, fear, dread
archaic presage
Origin
Early 18th century: from obsolete French présentiment.