presentiment

noun

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

   “A man, my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.”

   “A thousand alarming presentiments of evil to her beloved Catherine from this terrific separation must oppress her heart with sadness, and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together; […]”

   “Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children.”

   “This unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.”

   ““No,” replied the girl, “it would not be strange, of course; but for some inexplicable reason I have one of those foolish feminine presentiments that all is not right with Mr. Caldwell. It is the strangest feeling—it is as though I knew that he was not on board the ship.””