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]

English

Noun

1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

Synonyms

• boding
• foreboding
• premonition

Translations

actuarial prediction, advance notice, affect, affection, apocalypse, apprehensiveness, clairvoyance, discomposing, discomposure, disquietude, disturbance, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, experience, feeling, feeling tone, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, forefeeling, foreknowing, foreknowledge, foreseeability, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, guesswork, gut reaction, heartthrob, hunch, impression, improbability, intimation, intuition, intuitive impression, misgiving, omen, passion, perturbation, plenty of notice, portent, preapprehension, precautioning, precognition, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, premonition, prenotice, prenotification, prenotion, presage, presaging, prescience, preshowing, presignifying, prewarning, probability, profound sense, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, reaction, response, sensation, sense, sentiment, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, suspicion, undercurrent, vague feeling, vague idea, vaticination