presentiment
Sense of dread
A presentiment is a feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad—a sense of foreboding without clear evidence: She had a presentiment that the trip would end badly.
The word suggests intuition rather than reasoned prediction, a vague unease about the future that can't quite be explained.
Advance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- second sightExtrasensory perception of events
ESP · psychic · prophecy · vision · divination · augury · foreknowledge · extrasensory
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- trepidationFearful uncertainty
misgiving · disquiet · qualm · worry · fear · alarm · wariness · chill
Sign of future calamity
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- signMark conveying information
- warningAlert about danger
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
presage · augury · auspice · prognostication · forewarning · ill omen · bad sign · dark cloud
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- feelingSensed inner state
awareness · perception · sensitivity · insight · inner voice · nagging feeling · sneaking suspicion · funny feeling
premonition
Advance sense of future events
- foresightAbility to anticipate futures
- prescienceKnowledge of future events
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
second sight · ESP · psychic · prophecy · vision · divination · augury · foreknowledge · extrasensory · prophetic
dread
Intense anticipatory fear
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
trepidation · misgiving · disquiet · qualm · worry · fear · alarm · wariness · chill · shiver
portent
Sign of future calamity
foreshadowing · presage · augury · auspice · prognostication · forewarning · ill omen · bad sign · dark cloud · writing on the wall
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- gut feelingInstinctive sense about something
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
feeling · awareness · perception · sensitivity · insight · inner voice · nagging feeling · sneaking suspicion · funny feeling · stirring
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- gut feelingsgut feeling, gut instinct, gut reaction, hunch, instinct
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- psychic abilitiesclairvoyance, ESP, precognition, second sight, telepathy
- sensessight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
presentimenthindsight
Recognition after the fact
retrospection · afterthought · recollection · post-mortem · looking back
presentimentoptimism
Tendency to expect good
hopefulness · confidence · assurance · serenity · calm