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presentiment noun [ prɪˈzɛntɪm(ə)nt ]

• an intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding.
• "a presentiment of disaster"
Similar: premonition, foreboding, 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: early 18th century: from obsolete French présentiment .


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