Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To feel beforehand; have a premonition of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To feel beforehand; feel as if by presentiment.
- noun In psychology, an anticipatory feeling or anticipatory tactual perception; a tactual image associatively aroused by the presentation of a visual, auditory, etc., stimulus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
feel orperceive beforehand or in advance; to have apresentiment of.
Etymologies
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From fore- + feel.
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Examples
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Shall it not be by putting ourselves directly to the work favoring the foundation of new schools, which shall be ruled as much as possible by this spirit of liberty, which we forefeel will dominate the entire work of education in the future?
Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman 1904
mollusque commented on the word forefeel
The forefeel of fame was as heady as the old wines of nostalgia.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 23
June 7, 2009