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Presentiment
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Example Sentences
- Even as the days tick steadily by, unmarred by further atrocities, the presentiment lingers.
- Looking at the work as a powerful presentiment of the future is helpful, perhaps.
- He may even have a presentiment that it will end his life.
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presentiment
1714, from Fr. presentiment, from M.Fr. pressentir "to have foreboding," from L. præsentire "to sense beforehand," from præ "before" + sentire "perceive, feel" (see sentient).
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