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Presentiment vs Feeling - What's the difference?

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Presentiment is a related term of feeling.


As nouns the difference between presentiment and feeling

is that presentiment is a premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen while feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin.

As an adjective feeling is

emotionally sensitive.

As a verb feeling is

.

presentiment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
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  • * 1973 , Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight :
  • Everything on the surface appeared to be just as it ought to be. And yet Constantin Demiris still felt that vague sense of unease, a presentiment of trouble.

    Synonyms

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    feeling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Emotionally sensitive.
  • Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling .
  • Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
  • He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sensation, particularly through the skin.
  • The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling .
  • Emotion; impression.
  • The house gave me a feeling of dread.
  • Emotional state or well-being.
  • You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
  • Emotional attraction or desire.
  • Many people still have feelings for their first love.
  • Intuition.
  • He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
  • * 1987 ,
  • Got on a lucky one
    Came in eighteen to one
    I've got a feeling
    This year's for me and you
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
  • An opinion, an attitude.
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  • Derived terms

    * fellow feeling * hard feelings * hurt feelings

    Verb

    (head)
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