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Date: 1700-1800
Language: French
Origin: pressentiment, from Latin praesentire 'to feel before'

presentiment

 noun
     
pre‧sen‧ti‧ment [countable]
formal a strange feeling that something is going to happen, especially something bad [= premonition]
presentiment of
a presentiment of disaster
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