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foreknowledge

English

Etymology

fore- +? knowledge; equivalent to Grecian cognate prognosis and Latinate cognate precognition.

Noun

foreknowledge (usually uncountable, plural foreknowledges)

  1. Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition

Related terms

  • foreknow

Translations

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presentiment

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pr??zen.t?.m?nt/

Noun

presentiment (plural presentiments)

  1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 13:
      Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.
    • 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight:
      Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

Synonyms

  • boding
  • foreboding
  • forefeeling
  • premonition

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French pressentiment

Noun

presentiment n (plural presentimente)

  1. presentiment

Declension

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