sense of doom
Feeling disaster approaches
A sense of doom is a feeling that something terrible is about to happen—catastrophe, death, or disaster felt as imminent and unavoidable.
The phrase often appears in medical contexts, where a sense of impending doom is a recognized symptom of heart attacks, panic attacks, and anaphylaxis.
Outside clinical settings, it describes a heavy dread that settles over someone: A sense of doom hung over the town as the storm approached.
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- forebodingFearful anticipation of harm
- sinking feelingAnxious gut premonition
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- pit in stomachVisceral anxiety sensation
impending · ominous · dark cloud · premonition · writing on the wall · unease · despair · darkness · gathering storm · inevitable · hopelessness · end times · apocalypse · looming · shadow · sword of Damocles · terror · catastrophe
- Anxietyanxiety, nervousness, panic, worry, generalized anxiety
- doomapocalypse, end times, judgment day, end of days, cataclysm
- anxiety signspanic, nervousness, worry, worrying, trembling
- foresightforesight, precognition, futurology, forethought, premonition
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
sense of doomhope
Desire for good outcomes
optimism · hopefulness · positive outlook · buoyancy · cheerfulness
sense of doompeace of mind
State without anxiety
serenity · equanimity · calm · tranquility · reassurance
sense, senses, sensed, sensing, sensible, sensibility, senseless, sensitive, sensitivity