Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding
A presentiment is a feeling that a particular event, for example someone's death, will soon take place. I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me He had a presentiment of disaster. a strange feeling that something is going to happen, especially something bad = premonition presentiment of (pressentiment, from praesentire )