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presentiment::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | boding, foreboding, premonition |
| Type of | apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread |
| Has types | presage, shadow |
the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case.
Examples of presentiment
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People have come out to play, but there is always a presentiment of the end of summer.
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That image, the presentiment it carried, startled him out of his own morass, he said.
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You have a strange dream or presentiment upon waking that casts a shadow over your day.
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Tormented from within by depression, fatigue and a haunting presentiment of his own death.
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As he sees it, intuition, at least the successful kind, is something more than vague presentiment.
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His sense of calamity had grown till it was a presentiment.
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It was up to the owner, who seemed to have a presentiment that if he allowed the object to depart, his father would die.
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Did the director, when he shot this film, get a chill presentiment of how personal it was all going to look?
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She is haunted by a presentiment of death, an old crone with a face wrinkled into bird tracks, her left eye a bulging black socket.
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- Foreboding: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
- A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen
- An emotional response that can only be described as precognitive, such as a feeling of dread before an impending disaster.
- The sensing of a future feeling.
