foreboding (redirected from forebodingness)

fore·bod·ing  (fôr-bdng, fr-)

n.

1. A sense of impending evil or misfortune.

2. An evil omen; a portent.

adj.

Marked by or indicative of foreboding; ominous.

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fore·boding·ly adv.

fore·boding·ness n.

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foreboding

Noun

a strong feeling that something bad is about to happen

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	foreboding - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" boding, premonition, presentiment apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" shadow - a premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness" presage - a foreboding about what is about to happen
	2.	foreboding - an unfavorable omen omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, presage, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle"
Adj.	1.	foreboding - ominously prophetic fateful, portentous prophetic, prophetical - foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; "prophetic writings"; "prophetic powers"; "words that proved prophetic"

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foreboding

noun 1. dread, fear, anxiety, chill, unease, apprehension, misgiving, premonition, presentiment, apprehensiveness

noun 2. omen, warning, prediction, portent, sign, token, foreshadowing, presage, prognostication, augury, foretoken

Translations

foreboding [fɔːˈbəudɪŋ] n → presentimiento

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foreboding [fɔːˈbəudɪŋ] n → pressentiment m (néfaste)

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foreboding [fɔːˈbəudɪŋ] n → Vorahnung f

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foreboding [fɔːˈbəudɪŋ] n → presagio di male