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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

  1. noun A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen.
  2. adj Suggesting that something bad is coming; ominous.

foreshadowing — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. verb Present participle of foreshadow: to be an early sign of something that is going to happen.

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