(v. t.) To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
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Presentiment
Definition:
(n.) 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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(1) Van Gogh writes that he and Gauguin are discussing "the terrific subject of an association of certain painters" and of his "presentiment of a new world … and a great artistic renaissance" that will find its home in the tropics.
(2) The same dire presentiments were deployed when Polish people started coming here in the 1990s, yet their numbers were far lower than predicted.
(3) Every second homosexual man has a presentiment of his own homosexuality during childhood.
(4) Awareness of approaching death seems not seldom due to "presentiment", averbal-communicative "preinformation" or impressions in face to progressive illness without successful therapy.
(5) He views phenomenology as the crucial concept for clinical exploration, and contrasts this approach with the shallowness of purely descriptive approaches on the one hand and the distortion imposed by theoretical presentiments of psychotherapy on the other.