presentiment

[ pri-zen-tuh-muh nt ]

/ prɪˈzɛn tə mənt /

a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.

Origin of presentiment

1705–15; < French, now obsolete spelling of pressentiment. See pre-, sentiment

pre·sen·ti·ment·al, adjective

She stopped before the table, timid and shrinking as though she felt a presentiment of danger, but making an effort to smile.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |Vicente Blasco Ibanez
The young girl had had a presentiment of impending evil, but her wish to postpone the journey had been overruled.

Modern Magic |Maximilian Schele de Vere
And the decay of the presentiment must have been hastened by the failure of so many presentiments to make good.

The Daughter of the Storage |William Dean Howells
There was presentiment and menace in every minute of that brief half-hour.

The Wave |Algernon Blackwood

I have a presentiment that I shall die twice more, staying dead the fifth time I pass away.

The Skipper and the Skipped |Holman Day

presentiment

/ (prɪˈzɛntɪmənt) /

a sense of something about to happen; premonition

C18: from obsolete French, from pressentir to sense beforehand; see pre-, sentiment