Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Presentiment \Pre*sen"ti*ment\, n. [Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf.
   F. pressentiment. See {Presentient}.]
   Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous
   apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or
   conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or
   calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil;
   foreboding.

Source : WordNet®

presentiment
     n : a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of
         foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the
         judge would dismiss the case" [syn: {foreboding}, {premonition},
          {boding}]