Presentiment, n.
Etymology: [Pref. pre- + sentiment: cf. F. pressentiment. See Presentient.]
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
Shades of meaning
Fernald has no entry of its own for presentiment; he lists it under anticipation.
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