Misgiving
/mɪsˈɡɪvɪŋ/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
"He could think of her being there, without a lurking misgiving that it would have been better if she had not come."
- 2 doubt about someone's honesty wordnet
- 3 painful expectation wordnet
- 4 uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) wordnet
Example
More examples"Happy days of childish credulity, when fact and fiction were swallowed alike without a misgiving!"
Etymology
From misgive, from mis- + give, from Middle English give (“suggest, given”). Compare given and what gives.