'Presentiment' definitions:
Definition of 'presentiment'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, presentiment, boding]
Definition of 'Presentiment'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'presentiment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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