presentiment

Etymology

From French pressentiment, from Middle French, equivalent to pre- + sentiment.

noun

1. A premonition; a feeling that something, often of undesirable nature, is going to happen.
   This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me. 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
   I had a presentiment that this would be my last journey to the Continent for many a long day to come; this, as events turned out, proved all too correct. [This was published posthumously, the author died on 19 November 1942.] 1943 November and December, Chas. S. Lake, “Some Continental Travel Experiences (1922-1939)—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 355
   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. 1973, Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight