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pressentiment — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • feeling noun An emotion or emotional state.
  • foreboding noun A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen.
  • hunch noun A feeling or guess based on instinct rather than solid evidence.
  • premonition noun A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, before there is any real evidence of it.
  • presentiment noun A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

Senses

pressentiment is used for these senses in English:

  • feeling Intuition.
  • foreboding A sense of evil to come.
  • gut feeling (idiomatic) An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
  • premonition A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
  • presentiment A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

feeling — full definition

  1. noun An emotion or emotional state.
  2. noun A sensation experienced through the sense of touch.
  3. adj Showing or having strong emotional sensitivity.

foreboding — full definition

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

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