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presentiment Definition


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presentiment
noun
    1. A feeling that something, especially something bad, is about to happen, just before it does.
      Thesaurus: feeling, fear, foreboding, presage, misgiving, premonition, intuition, hunch, apprehension, bad vibes (slang), expectation, forecast, forethought, anticipation.
Etymology: 18c: French, from pressentir to sense beforehand.



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