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Presentiment

//prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt// noun

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

    "A man, my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before."

  2. 2
    a feeling of evil to come wordnet

Etymology

From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- + sentiment.

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