SuaviloquyToday’s word

foreboding

Foreboding, n.

Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for foreboding; he lists it under anticipation, anxiety.

Where he writes about it:

Expectation may be either of good or evil; presentiment almost always, apprehension and foreboding always, of evil; anticipation and antepast, commonly of good. — from anticipation
Anxiety refers to some future event, always suggesting hopeful possibility, and thus differing from apprehension, fear, dread, foreboding, terror, all of which may be quite despairing. — from anxiety
Foreboding, dread, etc., commonly incapacitate for all helpful thought or endeavor. — from anxiety