different between presentiment vs misgiving

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

English

Etymology

From misgive , from mis- +? give, from Middle English give (“suggest, given”). Compare given and what gives.

Noun

misgiving (plural misgivings)

1. doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread

Usage notes

Almost always used in the plural.

Synonyms

• doubt
• See Thesaurus:apprehension

Translations

References

Further reading

• misgiving in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• misgiving in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.