Presentiment Definition

prĭ-zĕntə-mənt
presentiments
noun
presentiments
A feeling that something, esp. of an unfortunate or evil nature, is about to take place; foreboding.
Webster's New World

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

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Noun

Singular:
presentiment
Plural:
presentiments

Origin of Presentiment

  • Obsolete French from presentir to feel beforehand from Latin praesentīre prae- pre- sentīre to feel sent- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French pressentiment, from Middle French

    From Wiktionary

Presentiment Sentence Examples

  • Anna Pavlovna's presentiment was in fact fulfilled.

  • The latter at the last moment recorded their votes in favor of the Abarzuza Bill when they perceived that a strange sort of eleventh-hour presentiment was about to make all the Spanish parties vote this insufficient reform.

  • This is a dark presentiment of things to come, I fear.

  • Tomorrow perhaps, even certainly, I have a presentiment that for the first time I shall have to show all I can do.

  • We know phenomena, how the existence of things appears to us in nature; we believe in the true nature, the eternal essence of things (the good, the true, the beautiful); by means of presentiment (Ahnung) the intermediary between knowledge and belief, we recognize the supra-sensible in the sensible, the being in the phenomenon.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRE

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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presentiment

Words Starting With P and Ending With T

Starts With P & Ends With TStarts With PR & Ends With TStarts With P & Ends With NT

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12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With P12 Letter Words Ending With T