Foretaste (Noun)
Meaning
An early limited awareness of something yet to occur.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The eerie feeling in the air gave us a foretaste of the disaster that was to come.
- His childhood misfortunes were a foretaste of the hardships he would face as an adult.
- The isolated incident of vandalism was a foretaste of the full-scale riot that would erupt a few days later.
- As a child, she had experienced a foretaste of her future loneliness through her parents' frequent absences.
- The few mild tremors were a foretaste of the massive earthquake that would devastate the city.