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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
presentiment
n : 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,
boding]
WordNet (r) 2.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "presentiment":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
boding, foreboding, premonition
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