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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope