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Definition of presentiment in English: presentimentnoun prɪˈzɛntɪm(ə)ntprɪˈsɛntɪm(ə)ntprəˈzɛn(t)əmənt An intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding. a presentiment of disaster Example sentencesExamples - He hoped that we could meet some other time, but I had a presentiment that a future occasion may not be possible in this world.
- It is such a powerful presentiment of my own death that I begin to cry.
- For every person who, warned by a presentiment of catastrophe, turned back at the last minute from boarding a plane that was shortly to crash, thousands (by now) did not.
- Pip leaves the room, though returns a few minutes later on some odd presentiment.
- Well, there were some presentiments of the rock 'n' roll destiny that beckoned.
- But there was the tiniest presentiment of disaster.
- These are the sort of tales one might hear while hanging around an English village where everyone has cable television and cell phones and lives off the tourist trade, and yet where old presentiments of the supernatural have lingered.
- A presentiment of unease enveloped me before I could find my seat at the rear of the plane.
- He enjoyed his time at school, although there was a presentiment of things to come when, in the summer of 1960, he was sent home for hosting a wine party in the grounds.
- He doesn't notice his peers' fearful presentiments, or the sharp clatter of something falling onto the floor, shattering the silence.
- Often Hou's images seem like presentiments of future memories rather than representations of present happenings.
- I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
- Immediately she had shut her eyes sensing some peculiar presentiment.
- But, although he thought of it as invalid, at the same time he felt it to be the expression of a true presentiment.
- Novelists know how to put vague presentiments into words.
- But it wasn't only that vanished world they represented, but also the vanished happiness of my father's family; the faces smiling without any presentiment of their coming wartime doom.
Synonyms premonition, foreboding, intuition, feeling, hunch, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, feeling in one's bones, funny feeling, vague feeling, inkling, idea, sixth sense misgiving, worry, anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, fear, dread archaic presage
Origin Early 18th century: from obsolete French présentiment. Definition of presentiment in US English: presentimentnounprəˈzɛn(t)əməntprəˈzen(t)əmənt An intuitive feeling about the future, especially one of foreboding. a presentiment of disaster Example sentencesExamples - Often Hou's images seem like presentiments of future memories rather than representations of present happenings.
- But, although he thought of it as invalid, at the same time he felt it to be the expression of a true presentiment.
- Immediately she had shut her eyes sensing some peculiar presentiment.
- These are the sort of tales one might hear while hanging around an English village where everyone has cable television and cell phones and lives off the tourist trade, and yet where old presentiments of the supernatural have lingered.
- He hoped that we could meet some other time, but I had a presentiment that a future occasion may not be possible in this world.
- Well, there were some presentiments of the rock 'n' roll destiny that beckoned.
- It is such a powerful presentiment of my own death that I begin to cry.
- But there was the tiniest presentiment of disaster.
- He doesn't notice his peers' fearful presentiments, or the sharp clatter of something falling onto the floor, shattering the silence.
- A presentiment of unease enveloped me before I could find my seat at the rear of the plane.
- But it wasn't only that vanished world they represented, but also the vanished happiness of my father's family; the faces smiling without any presentiment of their coming wartime doom.
- I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
- Novelists know how to put vague presentiments into words.
- For every person who, warned by a presentiment of catastrophe, turned back at the last minute from boarding a plane that was shortly to crash, thousands (by now) did not.
- Pip leaves the room, though returns a few minutes later on some odd presentiment.
- He enjoyed his time at school, although there was a presentiment of things to come when, in the summer of 1960, he was sent home for hosting a wine party in the grounds.
Synonyms premonition, foreboding, intuition, feeling, hunch, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, feeling in one's bones, funny feeling, vague feeling, inkling, idea, sixth sense
Origin Early 18th century: from obsolete French présentiment. |