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presentiments

presentiments is the plural of presentiment.

Meaning of presentiment

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

  1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
    • A man, my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC

Questions about presentiments

What is presentiments the plural of?
Presentiments is the plural of presentiment.

Words near presentiments in the dictionary

  1. presentiences
  2. presentient
  3. presentification
  4. presentiment
  5. presentimental
  6. presentiments
  7. presenting
  8. presenting problem
  9. presenting problems
  10. presention
  11. presentions

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