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Presentiment Definition & Meaning

presentiment
noun
  1. a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"

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What does presentiment mean?
a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
What part of speech is presentiment?
Presentiment is a noun.

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