Associations to the word «Presentiment»

Wiktionary

PRESENTIMENT, noun. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

Dictionary definition

PRESENTIMENT, noun. A feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats