Presentiment

Origin

From French pressentiment, from Middle French

Full definition of presentiment

Noun

1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
• 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

Synonyms

• boding
• foreboding
• premonition