presentiment
11presentiment — pre|sen|ti|ment [prıˈzentımənt] n [Date: 1700 1800; : French; Origin: pressentiment, from Latin praesentire to feel before ] formal a strange feeling that something is going to happen, especially something bad = ↑premonition presentiment of ▪ a… …
12presentiment — UK [prɪˈzentɪmənt] / US noun [countable] Word forms presentiment : singular presentiment plural presentiments formal a feeling that something is going to happen, especially something bad …
13presentiment — noun Etymology: French pressentiment, from Middle French, from pressentir to have a presentiment, from Latin praesentire to feel beforehand, from prae + sentire to feel more at sense Date: 1714 a feeling that something will or is about to happen… …
14presentiment — noun A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen. Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of… …
15presentiment — See presentiment, presentment …
16presentiment — [prɪ zɛntɪm(ə)nt, sɛn ] noun an intuitive feeling or foreboding about the future. Origin C18: from obs. Fr. présentiment …
17presentiment — noun (C) formal a strange and uncomfortable feeling that something is going to happen; premonition (+ of): a presentiment of danger …
18presentiment — noun a presentiment of disaster Syn: premonition, foreboding, intuition, (funny) feeling, hunch, feeling in one s bones, sixth sense; archaic presage …
19presentiment, presentment — A presentiment is a sense of something about to occur, a feeling, a foreboding: Don had a presentiment that his good luck would soon run out. Presentment is a rarely used word meaning a presentation, the act of presenting, offering, or submitting …
20presentiment — presentimental, adj. /pri zen teuh meuhnt/, n. a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, esp. something evil; foreboding. [1705 15; < F, now obs. spelling of pressentiment. See PRE , SENTIMENT] * * * …
