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A presentiment is a strange feeling that something is going to happen, almost always something bad — a tightness in the chest before news you have not heard yet. It is not a plan, not a reason, and not proof. It just arrives. The word is rather literary and a little old-fashioned; younger people more often say they have a bad feeling, or a gut feeling. Though actually, it is not the same as a prediction. A prediction tries to say what will happen; a presentiment is only the beforehand, with no argument attached. Careful with the building of the word: it is a feeling that comes before (pre- + sentiment), not a cousin of present meaning “now” or “a gift.”
預感（多指不祥的預感）
組成From French pressentiment, from Middle French; equivalent to pre- (before) + sentiment (a feeling).
同家族的字
- sentimentthe feeling part; a presentiment is that feeling arriving ahead of the event
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
presentimentnoun/prɪˈzɛn.tɪ.mənt/
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A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
- A man, my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.
- A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。