Antonyms for presentiment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pri-zen-tuh-muh nt |
| Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈzɛn tə mənt |
Definition of presentiment
Origin :- 1714, from obsolete French presentiment (Modern French Related: pressentiment), from Middle French pressentir "to have foreboding," from Latin praesentire "to sense beforehand," from prae "before" (see pre-) + sentire "perceive, feel" (see sense (n.)).
- noun anticipation, expectation
- I suppose you had a presentiment I should like him, and left him for me, mamma!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- He bit his lip in his annoyance, shivering with a presentiment.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- I had had the presentiment of this, but the certitude of it now caused me intense grief.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Of that I know nothing; Fate has no hint, my heart no presentiment.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope
- Cornstalk is said to have had a presentiment of his approaching fate.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
- Felicite professed to feel a presentiment that she would die rich.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- I had a presentiment of it on the first day; your painting frightened me as if it were a monster.
- Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
- I had a presentiment that I should hear more of the matter; and I was not wrong.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- I have a presentiment that sooner or later my position here will become untenable.
- Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
- All of them are antagonistic to sense and have an affinity to number and measure and a presentiment of ideas.
- Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
Synonyms for presentiment
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