Synonyms of premonitions

premonitions

noun

plural of premonition

as in presentiments

a feeling that something bad will happen

she had a premonition that her cat would somehow get hurt that day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• presentiments
• forebodings
• fears
• feels
• prognostications
• worries
• suspicions
• anxieties
• presages
• intuitions
• insights
• anticipations
• omens
• portents
• signs
• concerns
• apprehensions
• impressions
• doubts
• auguries
• foreknowledges
• perturbations
• agitations
• alarms
• misgivings
• foresights
• dreads
• disquiets
• presciences
• care

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of premonitions

Retroactively, they were interpreted as premonitions of the 1994 violence that saw many thousands of locals, primarily Tutsis, massacred at the hands of Hutu Génocidaires. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026

Again, people have premonitions. — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026

They are also filled with apocalyptic premonitions that make sense only in a first-century context, when Jesus was credibly thought by his followers to soon be on his way back home, ready to take believers up to Heaven, or the moon, with him. — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

New research shows Hinton’s premonitions about the insubordinate streak of AI may already be a reality. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026

The data in the new study validates these premonitions. — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026

The youngest chewing-gum seller would adopt the conspiratorial tones of a seasoned Kremlinologist, seeing signs and premonitions in every event. — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026

The earliest calls feel almost like premonitions, fragile voices that foreshadow the terror that would soon sweep across the Hill Country. — Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025

But when a filmmaker puts his most dismal vision for our collective future onscreen, we’re somehow supposed to pretend these terrible premonitions could never have occurred to little old us, instead hailing them as a feat of imaginative brilliance. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025