SUPREME WORD OF THE
DAY: PRESENTIMENT
PRONUNCIATION:
(pri-ZEN-tuh-ment)
MEANING:
noun: A sense that
something is going to happen, especially something bad.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French pressentiment (premonition), from
pressentir (to have a premonition), from Latin pre- (before) + sentire (to
feel). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sent- (to head for or to go),
that is also the source for send, scent, sense, sentence, assent, consent, and ressentiment. Earliest documented use: 1663.
USAGE:
"That the reader
has a presentiment of what will happen doesn’t necessarily impoverish its
affecting mystery.”
Ten White Geese; The New Yorker; Mar 11, 2013
Ten White Geese; The New Yorker; Mar 11, 2013
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