Today's Word "presentiment"
A premonition
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presentiment \prih-ZEN-tuh-muhnt\ (noun) - A sense that something will or is about to happen; a premonition.
"Lituma pictured the blank faces and icy narrow eyes that the people in Naccos . . . would all turn toward him when he asked if they knew the whereabouts of this woman's husband, and he felt the same discouragement and helplessness he had experienced earlier when he tried to question them about the other men who were missing: heads shaking no, monosyllables, evasive glances, frowns, pursed lips, a presentiment of menace." -- Mario Vargas Llosa, 'Death in the Andes'
Presentiment derives from Latin praesentire, "to feel beforehand," from prae-, "before" + sentire, "to feel."
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