Etymology

presentiment

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Today it means: A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen. Full definition →

French pressentiment
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  1. French · derived frompressentiment
  2. English todaypresentiment

From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- + sentiment.

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