presagi — meaning in English
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English meaning
- foreboding noun A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen.
- foreshadowing noun A technique in storytelling in which a writer plants hints early on about something that will happen later, so the eventual event feels prepared for rather than random.
- omen noun A sign believed to foretell a future event, whether good or bad.
- premonition noun A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, before there is any real evidence of it.
- presage noun A warning of a future event; an omen.
Senses
presagi is used for these senses in English:
- foreboding A sense of evil to come.
- foreshadowing (literature, usually, uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.
- omen Something which portends or is perceived to portend either a good or evil event or circumstance in the future, or which causes a foreboding; a portent or augury.
- premonition A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- presage A warning of a future event; an omen.
- presage An intuition of a future event; a presentiment.
foreboding — full definition
- noun A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen.
- adj Suggesting that something bad is coming; ominous.
foreshadowing — full definition
- noun A technique in storytelling in which a writer plants hints early on about something that will happen later, so the eventual event feels prepared for rather than random.
- verb Present participle of foreshadow: to be an early sign of something that is going to happen.