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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a feeling of evil to come;
- Example: "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"
- Example: "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
[syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Presentiment \Pre*sen"ti*ment\, n. [Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf.
   F. pressentiment. See Presentient.]
   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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

presentiment
    n 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" [syn: foreboding, premonition,
         presentiment, boding]