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presentimento — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • foretaste noun A taste beforehand.
  • hunch noun A feeling or guess based on instinct rather than solid evidence.
  • 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.
  • presentiment noun A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

Senses

presentimento is used for these senses in English:

  • foretaste A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
  • 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 clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
  • 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.

foretaste — full definition

  1. noun A taste beforehand.
  2. noun A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.

hunch — full definition

  1. noun A feeling or guess based on instinct rather than solid evidence.
  2. verb To bend forward, rounding your back and shoulders.

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