ominousness
Sense of dread
Ominousness is the quality of seeming to threaten or foreshadow something bad.
A sky can have an ominousness that warns of storms; a silence can carry the ominousness of impending conflict.
The word captures that unsettling sense that something harmful approaches: The ominousness of his tone made everyone stop talking.
Indication of potential harm
- menaceSource of potential harm
- perilSerious threat of harm
- hazardSource of potential harm
- jeopardyRisk of harm
risk · alarm · crisis · vulnerability · exposure · precariousness · insecurity · lurking
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- misgivingUneasy feeling of doubt
trepidation · presentiment · anxiety · disquiet · pessimism · gloom · doom · impending
threat
Indication of potential harm
jeopardy · risk · alarm · crisis · vulnerability · exposure · precariousness · insecurity · lurking · imminent
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- uneaseMild persistent worry
misgiving · trepidation · presentiment · anxiety · disquiet · pessimism · gloom · doom · impending · looming
harbinger
One who foreshadows
sign · forewarning · prophecy · herald · precursor · indicator · foreshadowing · signal · auspice · red flag
eerie
Disturbingly strange
unsettling · gloomy · dark · shadowy · haunting · menacing · oppressive · forlorn · bleak · murky
- creepy feelingseeriness, spookiness, creepiness, dread, foreboding
- omensomens, portent, portents, signs, augury
- suspiciondistrust, suspicion, mistrust, suspiciousness, doubt
- mysteriousnessenigma, mystique, inscrutability, obscurity, crypticness
ominousnessauspiciousness
State of favorable signs
reassurance · hopefulness · good omen · encouragement · favorableness
ominousnessreassurance
Words meant to calm
harmlessness · benignity · warmth · coziness · safety