sinking feeling
Stomach dropping sensation
A sinking feeling is a sudden sensation of dread or dismay, as if one's stomach were dropping: I had a sinking feeling when I saw the police car in the driveway.
The phrase captures the physical sensation that often accompanies the realization that something has gone or will go wrong.
- gut punchShocking emotional blow
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- despairTotal absence of hope
- presentimentVague sense of future events
anxiety · dismay · foreboding · sorrow · heaviness · pit · apprehension · deflation · cold sweat · uh-oh · dread · butterflies · concern · hopelessness · lurch · misgiving · worry · dropping
- gut feelingsgut instinct, gut reaction, hunch, instinct, intuition
- suffering metaphorsdrowning, bottomless pit, chains, cage, trapped
- phantom sensationsphantom limb, phantom pain, phantom sensation, phantom touch, phantom limb pain
- doubtdoubt, doubts, doubting, doubtful, skepticism
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
sinking feelingoptimism
Tendency to expect good
good feeling · excitement · elation · reassurance · confidence
sinking feelinglifted spirits
buoyancy · walking on air · spring in one's step · elation · floating feeling
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