presentiment

Meaning

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

Synonyms

premonition

foreboding

presage

hunch

intuition

misgiving

feeling

insight

expectation

inkling

telepathy

foreshadowing

mind reading

apprehension

boding

augury

forewarning

aura

clue

cue

divination

extrasensory perception

foresight

anticipation

glimmer

omen

sense

suspicion

touch

Translations

pressentiment

presentimento

presentimiento

Vorahnung

προαίσθημα

Ahnung

voorgevoel

προαίσθηση

pressentiment

pressentimento

Vorgefühl

corazonada

prémonition

antepassio

praesagium

Pronounced as (IPA)

/prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/

Etymology

From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- + sentiment.