Where does “presentiment” come from?
Presentiment comes from French pressentiment, from Middle French pressentiment and the suffix -ment (Old French -ment, Latin -mentum), ultimately from Latin mens meaning mind, derived from Proto-Indo-European méntis and men-.
presentiment (English): A premonition; a feeling that something, often of...
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- A premonition; a feeling that something, often of...
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