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presentiment

noun [C]
 
 
/prɪˈzen.tɪ.mənt/ formal

Definition

a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen: She had had a presentiment of what might lie ahead. → Synonym premonitionPlanning, expecting and arrangingPlotting and trapping
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