Meaning & use
premonition
A strong feeling that something, especially something bad, is about to happen.
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She had a premonition of danger just before the storm hit.
His premonition about the delayed flight turned out to be correct.
A note on using this word
Implies an intuitive, often unexplainable sense of coming events, usually something negative.
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