presentiment : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: presentiment	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Presentiment \Presen"timent\, 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.