Synonyms of the word

premonition

• n. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
• n. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

apprehensiveness

• n. the state of being apprehensive.

boding

• n. An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent.
• adj. Portending, ominous.
• v. present participle of bode.

dread

• v. (transitive) To fear greatly.
• v. To anticipate with fear.
• v. (intransitive) To be in dread, or great fear.
• v. (transitive) To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
• n. Great fear in view of impending evil; fearful apprehension of danger; anticipatory terror.
• n. Reverential or respectful fear; awe.
• n. Somebody or something dreaded.
• n. (obsolete) A person highly revered.
• n. (obsolete) Fury; dreadfulness.
• n. A Rastafarian.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) dreadlock.
• adj. Terrible; greatly feared.
• adj. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.

foreboding

• n. A sense of evil to come.
• n. An evil omen.
• adj. Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
• v. present participle of forebode.

forewarning

• v. present participle of forewarn.
• n. An advance warning; an omen.

presentiment

• n. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.

warning

• v. present participle of warn.
• n. The action of the verb warn; an instance of warning someone.
• n. Something spoken or written that is intended to warn.
• interj. Used to warn of danger in signs and notices.