Associations to the word «Presentiment»

Wiktionary

PRESENTIMENT, noun. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke