presentiment

English

Etymology

From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- +‎ sentiment.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
- 1817 December, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 1818, OCLC 318384910, page 13:
  A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; […]
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:
  This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.
- 1943 November and December, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 355:
  I had a presentiment that this would be my last journey to the Continent for many a long day to come; this, as events turned out, proved all too correct. [This was published posthumously, the author died on 19 November 1942.]
- 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:
  Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

Synonyms

boding
foreboding
forefeeling
premonition

Translations

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

Azerbaijani: sezmə, duyğu (az), duyma
Bulgarian: предчувствие (bg) n (predčuvstvie)
Catalan: pressentiment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 預感／预感 (zh) (yùgǎn)
Esperanto: antaŭsento
Finnish: aavistus (fi)
French: pressentiment (fr) m
German: Vorahnung (de) f
Italian: presentimento (it) m
Japanese: 予感 (ja) (よかん, yokan)
Korean: 예감 (ko) (yegam)
Latin: praesāgium n
Macedonian: пре́тчувство n (prétčuvstvo)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: forutanelse (no) m
Polish: przeczucie (pl) n
Portuguese: pressentimento (pt) m
Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije)
Serbo-Croatian: slutnja (sh) f
Spanish: presentimiento (es) m, corazonada (es) f
Tagalog: kutob (tl)

Romanian

Etymology

From French pressentiment.

Noun

presentiment n (plural presentimente)

presentiment

Declension

Declension of presentiment

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) presentiment	presentimentul	(niște) presentimente	presentimentele
genitive/dative	(unui) presentiment	presentimentului	(unor) presentimente	presentimentelor
vocative	presentimentule		presentimentelor