presentiment
/prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
Example Sentences
- "A man, my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before."
- "A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; […]"
- "Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children."
- "This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me."
- "“No,” replied the girl, “it would not be strange, of course; but for some inexplicable reason I have one of those foolish feminine presentiments that all is not right with Mr. Caldwell. It is the strangest feeling—it is as though I knew that he was not on board the ship.”"
- "I had a presentiment that this would be my last journey to the Continent for many a long day to come; this, as events turned out, proved all too correct. [This was published posthumously, the author died on 19 November 1942.]"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/
- British English: /prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/