presentiment[noun]Synonyms: apprehension, apprehensiveness, foreboding, misgiving, premonition, prenotion, presage
Related Words: discomposing,
discomposure,
disquietude,
disturbance,
perturbation [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
pre‧sen‧ti‧ment /prɪˈzentəmənt, prɪˈzentɪmənt/
noun [countable][
Date: 1700-1800;
Language: French;
Origin: pressentiment, from Latin praesentire 'to feel before']
formal a strange feeling that something is going to happen, especially something bad
Synonym : premonitionpresentiment of
a presentiment of disaster [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲