premonition
noun
[ ˌprɛməˈnɪʃ(ə)n ]
• a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant.
• "he had a premonition of imminent disaster"
Similar:
foreboding,
presentiment,
intuition,
feeling,
hunch,
suspicion,
sneaking suspicion,
feeling in one's bones,
funny feeling,
vague feeling,
inkling,
idea,
sixth sense,
misgiving,
worry,
anxiety,
apprehension,
apprehensiveness,
fear,
dread,
presage,
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘advance warning’): from French prémonition, from late Latin praemonitio(n- ), from Latin praemonere, from prae ‘before’ + monere ‘warn’.
