Is there an English word for a feeling of impending doom or dread? [closed]

Solution 1:

My preferred word for this is foreboding. Here is the entry for foreboding from Merriam-Webster:

: a feeling that something bad is going to happen.

Some examples from the entry:

She was filled with a sense of foreboding.

It seems that her forebodings were justified.

Solution 2:

You could try premonition (which isn't solely restricted to negative future scenarios, but has that connotation by default):

Definition (via Oxford Dictionaries Online):

A strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant

Example:

He had a premonition of imminent disaster.

Solution 3:

You could say that you have an ominous feeling:

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen;

threatening; inauspicious.

synonyms: threatening, menacing, baleful, forbidding, sinister, inauspicious, unpropitious, unfavorable, unpromising; portentous, foreboding, fateful, premonitory; black, dark, gloomy; formalminatory; literarydireful; rareminacious

"ominous clouds"

Solution 4:

You might consider, presentiment

A feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.

Origin of presentiment: 1705--15; < French, now obsolete spelling of pressentiment. See pre-, sentiment

presentimental, adjective

Random House

Solution 5:

uneasy, suspicious, anxiety, apprehensiveness, trepidation...

EXAMPLES:
The man felt uneasy.
She was suspicious of what was to come.
The child was anxious about the future.
An apprehensive look fell over his face.
The room was filled with trepidation.