Hypertext Webster Gateway: "presentiment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Presentiment \Pre*sen"ti*ment\, n. [Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf.
F. pressentiment. See {Presentient}.]
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous
apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or
conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or
calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil;
foreboding.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
presentiment
n : a feeling of evil to come: "a steadily escalating sense of
foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the
judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {foreboding}, {premonition},
{boding}]
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