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 feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen
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 )