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What is the noun for forebodingness?

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foreboder
  1. (archaic) an oracle; one who tells the future.
  2. (uncountable) Something that implies the imminent occurrence of another event.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Why the deuce should I repline, And be an ill foreboder?”
      “The cold was a foreboder of the nightmares of the winter that lay ahead.”
forebodement
  1. The act of foreboding.
  2. The thing foreboded.
foreboding
  1. A sense of evil to come.
  2. An evil omen.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “But it was a foreboding of evil, and it was with a heavy heart that I repaired to the quay and rowed myself back to the ship in the moonlight.”
      “With a sense of foreboding, Carr approached the ladder, put his foot on the bottom rung, and began his climb.”
      “I had a foreboding that something was wrong.”
forebode
  1. (obsolete) prognostication; presage
forebodingness
forebodements
  1. plural of forebodement
forebodings
  1. plural of foreboding
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Osric brings Laertes' challenge to a fencing bout, which a fatalistic Hamlet, despite his forebodings, accepts.”
      “When parents bid an emotional farewell to their offspring at the start of a gap year adventure, their minds are often filled with forebodings.”
      “We also know, from recent Japanese research, that US forebodings were well-grounded.”
foreboders
  1. plural of foreboder
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