presentiment

1. 1.

   a feeling of evil to come

   “a steadily escalating sense of foreboding”

   “the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case”

   Synonymsforebodingpremonitionboding

   Broaderapprehension

   Narrowershadowpresage

Other forms of presentiment

plural

presentiments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about presentiment

What does presentiment mean?

presentiment means "a feeling of evil to come".

How many syllables are in presentiment?

presentiment has 4 syllables: pre-sen-ti-ment. The stress falls on "sen".

What is another word for presentiment?

Close synonyms include foreboding, premonition, boding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is presentiment a common word?

presentiment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.