presentiment Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a feeling of evil to come
    foreboding; boding; premonition.
    • a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
    • the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case

WordNet

Pre*sen"ti*ment noun
Etymology
Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf. F. pressentiment. See Presentient.
Definitions
  1. Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

Webster 1913