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Presentiment

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.

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Apprehension 76% connected

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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Apprehensiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being apprehensive.

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Dread 76% connected

To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

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Presage 76% connected

Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

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Shadow 76% connected

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the ray…

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Boding 92% connected

of Bode

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Foreboding 92% connected

of Forebode

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Premonition 92% connected

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

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