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Definition of Presentiment
1. Noun. A feeling of evil to come. "The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
Generic synonyms: Apprehension, Apprehensiveness, Dread
Specialized synonyms: Shadow, Presage
Derivative terms: Forebode
Definition of Presentiment
1. n. 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.
Definition of Presentiment
1. Noun. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presentiment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentiment
Literary usage of Presentiment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"presentiment, or divination of approaching death, appearing to be a hypothetic
allegation, has been established as a strong factor in the production of a ..."
2. Faith-healing: Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena by James Monroe Buckley (1892)
"WHAT IS A presentiment? A presentiment in the strictly etymological sense is a
previous conception, sentiment, opinion, or apprehension; but its secondary ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1889)
"new place the feeling, " I have been here before," but which in this case takes
the form, I have already dreamed this, or had a presentiment of it, ..."
4. Reminiscences of Fifty Years by Mark Boyd (1871)
"A presentiment. I remember in my juvenile days the late Colonel the Honorable
James Stewart, CB5 afterward Secretary to the Treasury in the Duke of ..."
5. A History of the Rise of Methodism in America: Containing Sketches of by John Lednum (1859)
"In the afternoon, and particularly in the evening of this day, Mr. Rankin " had
a strong impulse upon, and presentiment in his mind, that there had been an ..."
6. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"My anxiety arose from a sense of the consequences of failure. In thirty minutes
after that vivid presentiment, came the apprehended crash. ..."
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