Presentiment

Definition: Presentiment

Presentiment

Noun

1. A feeling of evil to come: "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case".

Date "presentiment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Etymology: Presentiment \Pre*sen"ti*ment\, noun. [Prefix pre- sentiment: compare to the French expression pressentiment. See Presentient.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Presentiment

Synonyms: boding (n), foreboding (n), premonition (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Foresight	Foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion, presentiment; second sight; sagacity; (intelligence); antepast, prelibation, prophasis.
Misjudgment	Prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_e fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise.
Reasoning,	Noun: intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology; faith (supposition).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Presentiment

English words defined with "presentiment": boding ♦ foreboding, Forefeel ♦ premonition, Presentimental. (references)

Specialty definitions using "presentiment": Evergreen. (references)

Etymologies containing "presentiment": Forefeel ♦ Presentimental. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Presentiment" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (foreboding, forewarning, presentiment, presentive).

Author	Quotation
J. August Strindberg	Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour? We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	At the beginning of the sickness, having a presentiment of ill, he had written to Monsieur Gillenormand to ask for his son.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Presentiment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Presentiment" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Expressions using "presentiment": have a presentiment ♦ have a presentiment of. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "presentiment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏نذير شؤم, ‏حس داخلي (premonition), ‏شعور سبقي. (various references)

Bulgarian		предчувствие (augury, divination, hunch, precognition, premonition, presage, prevision). (various references)

Czech		předtucha (anticipation, apprehension, foreboding, hunch, prescience), tušení (flair, guess, hunch, inkling, notion, suspicion, vibes). (various references)

Dutch		voorgevoel. (various references)

Esperanto		antaŭsento. (various references)

Farsi		عقیده قبلی نسبت بچیزی , احساس وقوع امری ازپیش , روشن بینی قبلی , دلهره . (various references)

Finnish		aavistus (aura). (various references)

French		pressentiment (premonition). (various references)

Frisian		foarfielen. (various references)

German		vorahnung (foreboding, foreshadowing, intuition, premonition, presage), Ahnung (fancy, feeling, foreboding, hunch, idea, intuitiveness, notion, premonition, suspicion, whiff). (various references)

Greek		προαίσθηση (intuition, premonition), προαίσθημα (foreboding, premonition, presage), αόριστο κακό προαίσθημα. (various references)

Hebrew		מ� בא רעות (ominous), תחוש�" מוק�"מת (premonition), ר�'ש (emotion, feeling, sense, sentiment, sentimentality), � בואת �"לב (foreboding, hunch, prediction, premonition). (various references)

Hungarian		sejtelem (boding, inkling, presage, suspicion). (various references)

Indonesian		firasat (ability to prophesy the future). (various references)

Italian		presentimento (augury, foreboding, misgiving). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		予感 (premonition). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よか�" (lingering winter, premonition). (various references)

Papiamen		presentimentu. (various references)

Pig Latin		esentimentpray

Portuguese		pressentimento (augury, feeling, foreboding, hunch, inkling, misgiving, omen, premonition, presage). (various references)

Romanian		prevestire (augury, auspice, foreboding, omen, portent, prediction, prognostication, sooth), presimţire (divination, handsel, hunch, misgiving), presentiment (foreboding, forewarning, presentive). (various references)

Russian		предчувствие (premonition, presage). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predosećaj. (various references)

Spanish		presentimiento (boding, feeling, foreboding, misgiving, presage, prognostication). (various references)

Swedish		förkänsla (forewarning). (various references)

Turkish		malum olma, içine doğma (a hunch, foreboding, premonition, presage), önsezi (a hunch, foreboding, foresight, forethought, hunch, intuition, precognition, premonition, presage, prescience, sixth sense, vision). (various references)

Ukrainian		упередженість (animus, discrimination, inequity, partiality, prejudgement, prejudgment, prejudication), передчуття (anticipation, augury, foreboding, foretaste, prelibation, premonition). (various references)

Vietnamese		linh cảm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	antepassio, praesagium. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	pressentir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "presentiment": presentimental, presentiments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Presentiment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: presentement, ressentiment. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "presentiment" (pronounced 'Pre*sen"ti*ment'): Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abiliment, Abjurement, Abodement, Abolishment, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Acclimatement, Accompaniment, Accomplishment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accouplement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acharnement, Acknowledgment, Acquirement, Acquitment, Additament, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjument, Adjustment, Admonishment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advertisement, Advisement, Affamishment, Affeerment, Afforcement, Afforciament, Affordment, Affranchisement, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggrandizement, Aggroupment, Agistment. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-m-n-n-p-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: presentient, presentment, spinnerette.
	-2 letters: interments, nemertines, permittees, preeminent, resentment, serpentine.
	-3 letters: entremets, interment, internees, nemertine, penitents, permittee, pertinent, pinsetter, retinenes, sentiment, spinneret, teentsier, tenements.
	-4 letters: emetines, emitters, emperies, emptiers, emptiest, ententes, epimeres, eremites, eternise, insetter, intenser, interest, internee, internes, misenter, penitent, pentenes, preemies, preteens, pretense, pretties, reinsmen, renitent, retinene, sentient, spermine, sternite, teeniest, teensier.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-m-n-n-p-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: presentiments.
	+2 letters: presentimental.
	+3 letters: intemperateness.
	+4 letters: experimentations.
	+5 letters: contemporaneities, importunatenesses, intemperatenesses, misrepresentation, predeterminations, triphenylmethanes.
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