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Webster 1913 Edition


Presentiment

Pre-sen′ti-ment

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Presentiment

PRESENT'IMENT

,
Noun.
[pre and sentiment.] Previous conception, sentiment or opinion; previous apprehension of something future.

Definition 2024


presentiment

presentiment

English

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

  1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
    • 1891, Oscar Wilde, “XVIII”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
      This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.
    • 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:
      Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

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