presentiment

pre·sen·ti·ment  (pr-znt-mnt)

n.

A sense that something is about to occur; a premonition.

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[Obsolete French, from presentir, to feel beforehand, from Latin praesentre : prae-, pre- + sentre, to feel; see sent- in Indo-European roots.]

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pre·senti·mental (-mntl) adj.

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presentiment [prɪˈzɛntɪmənt]

n

a sense of something about to happen; premonition

[from obsolete French, from pressentir to sense beforehand; see pre-, sentiment]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

presentiment - 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, foreboding, premonition 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

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presentiment

noun premonition, feeling, expectation, anticipation, fear, forecast, hunch, intuition, apprehension, misgiving, foreboding, presage, forethought He had a presentiment of disaster.

Translations

presentiment [prɪˈzentɪmənt] N → presentimiento m
to have a presentiment about sth → tener un presentimiento acerca de algo
to have a presentiment that → tener el presentimiento de que ..., presentir que ...

presentiment

n → (Vor)ahnung f, → Vorgefühl nt; to have a presentiment of something → eine Vorahnung von etw haben; to have a presentiment that … → das Gefühl haben, dass …

presentiment [prɪˈzɛntɪmənt] n → presentimento