Presentiment
noun
A feeling that something, usually unpleasant, is going to happen.
She had a strange presentiment that the project wouldn't go as planned.
Often appears as...
- strange presentiment
- ominous presentiment
noun
A feeling that something, usually unpleasant, is going to happen.
She had a strange presentiment that the project wouldn't go as planned.
Often appears as...
- strange presentiment
- ominous presentiment
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Intuition
Presentiment usually suggests a negative or worrying intuition about the future.
He had a presentiment that the skies would open up and ruin the picnic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Psychic
A presentiment is not a supernatural or psychic ability but a deep, instinctive feeling.
Even though there was no evidence, her presentiment told her not to trust him.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Experience
Presentiments are personal and subjective, not based on shared facts or visible signs.
Despite the calm seas, the old sailor’s presentiment was of an approaching storm.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Intuition
Presentiment usually suggests a negative or worrying intuition about the future.
He had a presentiment that the skies would open up and ruin the picnic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Psychic
A presentiment is not a supernatural or psychic ability but a deep, instinctive feeling.
Even though there was no evidence, her presentiment told her not to trust him.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Experience
Presentiments are personal and subjective, not based on shared facts or visible signs.
Despite the calm seas, the old sailor’s presentiment was of an approaching storm.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Intuition
Presentiment usually suggests a negative or worrying intuition about the future.
He had a presentiment that the skies would open up and ruin the picnic.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Psychic
A presentiment is not a supernatural or psychic ability but a deep, instinctive feeling.
Even though there was no evidence, her presentiment told her not to trust him.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Experience
Presentiments are personal and subjective, not based on shared facts or visible signs.
Despite the calm seas, the old sailor’s presentiment was of an approaching storm.
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Quote examples
Annie Besant
English Philosopher
Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.
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Bayard Taylor
American Journalist
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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August Strindberg
Swedish Dramatist
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.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian Scientist
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Annie Besant
English Philosopher
Premonitions, presentiments, the sensing of unseen presences and many allied experiences are due to the activity of the astral body and its reaction on the physical; their ever-increasing frequency is merely the result of its evolution among educated people.
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Bayard Taylor
American Journalist
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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August Strindberg
Swedish Dramatist
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.
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian Scientist
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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