presentiment (redirected from presentiments)

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 [priz-zen-tim-ent]

Noun

a sense that something unpleasant is about to happen; premonition [obsolete French pressentir to sense beforehand]

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