foreboding
n.a feeling that something bad is going to happen. It is like a dark cloud in your mind that makes you worry about the future.
n.a feeling of expectation or prediction that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen. Often associated with a sense of dread or unease.
“A sense of foreboding hung over the room.”
“The dark, stormy sky gave the hikers a sense of foreboding before the heavy rain began.”
“The protagonist's internal monologue is filled with a deep foreboding, as the author uses the approaching winter to mirror the character's growing fear of isolation.”
“Currell recalled waking up with a sense of foreboding, telling her father that she didn’t want to go to school that day.”
“That guilt and vague foreboding must be even worse for teachers.”
From Middle English forbodyng, vorboding, equivalent to fore- + bode + -ing. Compare German Vorbote (“harbinger, omen”).
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.