Pronounced: sih-KWAY-shuhs, adj
Notes: Not what I thought
Yesterday’s word
The word presentiment is “the sense that something is going to happen (especially something bad)”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
As I noted, I was pretty close to the meaning, just by breaking the word into pre- (before) and sentiment (feeling); thus, feeling before”. In fact, our word came from the French word pressentiment (premonition), which came from pressentir (to have a premonition), which came from the Latin words pre- (before) and sentire (to feel).
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