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 (cmn), 预感 (cmn) (yùgǎn)

• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: slutnja (sh) f