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BNC: 41788 COCA: 36150

presentiment

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
presentiment /prɪˈzɛntəmənt/ noun
plural presentiments
presentiment
/prɪˈzɛntəmənt/
noun
plural presentiments
Learner's definition of PRESENTIMENT
[count] formal
: a feeling or belief that something is going to happen预感
BNC: 41788 COCA: 36150

presentiment

noun

pre·​sen·​ti·​ment pri-ˈzen-tə-mənt How to pronounce presentiment (audio)
: a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition
presentimental adjective

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Do you ever have presentiments, Mr. Flintwich?' 'I am not sure that I know what you mean by the term, sir,' replied that gentleman. 'Say, in this case, Mr. Flintwich, undefined anticipations of pleasure to come.' 'I can't say I'm sensible of such a sensation at present,' returned Mr. Flintwich, with the utmost gravity. Nothing sensational said here, perhaps, but Mr. Flintwich shows a sensitivity to words that, like "presentiment," are related to the Latin verb sentire, ("to feel"). He uses two of these words, and we've added three more. The quote is from Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit, and the words are "sensible," "sensation," "sensational," "sensitivity," and "sense."

Example Sentences

a nagging presentiment of danger
Recent Examples on the Web The lavishness turns quickly into horror — Godwin gives us buckets of blood unasked for in the original — and then into a presentiment of Lear on the heath. Jesse Green, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2020 Seen from behind, men and women bundled up in heavy coats are saturated with a mute presentiment, that of people beginning to endure. Han Kang, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019 Those years, of course, marked respectively the peak of the frenzied optimism of the last business cycle and the first chilling presentiments of what was to come. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019 During the 1919 scenes she is occasionally stopped in her tracks by presentiments of what’s in store around the corner. Jesse Green, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017

Word History

Etymology

French pressentiment, from Middle French, from pressentir to have a presentiment, from Latin praesentire to feel beforehand, from prae- + sentire to feel — more at sense

First Known Use

1714, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of presentiment was in 1714
BNC: 41788 COCA: 36150

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