Tengo el presentimiento de que me han timado

Question

I've got a feeling I've been swindled. So presentimiento means feeling here, can sentimiento work too, or different kind of feeling? Is presentimiento only work for "that" type of feeling that you don't really feel but more like believe or do they both work?

Gracias

Answer 1

Presentimiento means premonition, intuition. In this case it works as "feeling" - but it is feeling in the sense of intuition, not as in sentiment.

presentir. (Del lat. praesent?re). 1. tr. Intuir, tener la sensación de que algo va a suceder. 2. tr. Adivinar algo antes que suceda, por algunos indicios o señales que lo preceden. ¶ MORF. conjug. c. sentir.

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Answer 2

Last time I checked Presentimiento means how you are feeling right now.

Answer 3

¿Cual es mejor: presentimiento o sentimiento?