presentiment

English

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• boding
• foreboding
• premonition

Translations

A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen

Catalan: pressentiment (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 預感 (zh), 预感 (zh) (yùgǎn) Croatian: slutnja (hr) f. Finnish: aavistus (fi) French: pressentiment (fr) m.

German: Vorahnung (de) f. Japanese: 予感 (ja) (よかん, yokan) Korean: 예감 (ko) (yegam) (豫感 (ko)) Russian: предчувствие (ru) (predčústvije) n. (the first в is silent)